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[MeepBeep]

Wouldn't low vents cause a cold air draft during winter months?

Vents need to be located in the proper locations in respect to the roosting area to prevent drafts in the roosting area...

You can have a lot of ventilation without an observable draft, consider your bathroom exhaust fan or a stove top hood, is there a 'draft' in the room when those vents are on? Or even the heat/AC vents in a house, unless you are standing directly in front or on top of one there is for all intent no draft...

As long as the ventilated air movement is not ruffling the birds feathers when they are at roost it's acceptable, the cold air is by far the lesser of the evils compared to the warm humid air and ammonia gas saturated air...

 

[Ryscott]

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[junebuggena]

Cute egg, but can't help but notice the complete lack of ventilation in those eaves...

 

[Ryscott]

There is windows in front, rear and side. There's also a exhaust fan that kicks on when temperatures get too hot.

 

[bruceha2000]

I just added my Gypsy Chick coop in the Coops area.
6'x10' with a 400 sqft run.

That is just TOO cute!!!! Nice big run tool

Hi again, here is my coop. After doing a bunch of research and getting some ideas this is what I came up with. Let me give you the tour.


This is my watering system. BEST THING EVER!!! It is hooked to the garden hose through a toilet float valve in the bucket. When the water level drops it automatically fills. It is the gravity fed into the coop and into the run with PVC piping and poultry watering nipples.

Looks like you put a lot of thought and good work into your coop.
2 suggestions on the waterer.

1) put a shutoff in the line between the bucket and the T, maybe one at the beginning of each line as well so if you need to clean the bucket, or one of the nipples decides to fail, you don't have to drain the whole thing to deal with it

2) build a light excluding box around the bucket or replace with a drink cooler. If light can get to the water, it will grow algae pretty darned fast (go back to suggestion 1

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[bruceha2000]

There is windows in front, rear and side. There's also a exhaust fan that kicks on when temperatures get too hot.

Where do you live? You can put that in your profile. Ventilation is frequently more important in the winter than in the summer.

 

[MeepBeep]

There is windows in front, rear and side. There's also a exhaust fan that kicks on when temperatures get too hot.

If you are going to use an exhaust fan for up high exhaust, you should really run it 24/7, the ammonia gasses all year round and humidity during the winter are just as detrimental to the birds health as heat is during the summer...