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[junkman56]

ok so i need help... i am wondering how much ventalation is needed... we will have the hole on the floor- im wanting 2 doors on each side with like a screen door as well so i can open during the day and at night close them up.... but.... then at night the only "window" would be the hole on the floor... help- any suggestions!I am from ohio so i need something that works in the winter months too

you should have a down low vent for fresh air in, and you need to have vents up near the roof. also known as 24/7 ventilation, very important. you can never have to much ventilation

here is a link for ventilation
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...-go-out-there-and-cut-more-holes-in-your-coop


here are a couple of pics of my 24/7 vents.

these are my 24/7 vent under the roof overhang , the window on the right I keep
closed over the winter, the window on the left I keep open part way over winter.
my hens did just fine over this past winter, I live in PA. so we have about the same winters
I hope this helps you
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this is my 24/7 vent over the rear door of the coop


this is my 24/7fresh air in vent under the nesting boxes

 

[Sylvester017]

The radio is for our entertainment as well. My wife and I sneak outside at night and watch the chickens with their light on inside. June bugs and moths provide entertainment. The radio gives us music and we take snacks and drinks with us. During the day, we hang out and let the birds roam the yard with the dogs.

An owner experimented putting a radio on the ground and all the chickens were crowding around it to listen to it! When we have to keep a sick or injured bird in the house we leave a talk radio show on softly so the chicken isn't feeling alone, plus we leave a mirror out all the time.

 

[Sylvester017]

I wish I had thought of converting an old wooden swing set into a coop/run. The A frames would have been perfect. The coop up high and the wider run below. I got rid of it years ago, but it could have been greatness.

Here are some pictures of my tractor.
Front. Run beneath. 21 feet of roosts above. Lower level has nesting buckets on one end and feed and water on the other with "poop trays" protecting them from above below the roosts. Trap door leads to 32s.f. grazing area below. I let the girls out every day to stretch their legs a little and move the tractor to keep them in fresh grass. I mounted a light fixture on the inside above the front door with a switch and electrical outlet. I put a clock radio in the rafters to keep the girls company and confuse predators.

Here is where it typically sits.

BEAUTIFUL YARD AND TREE!

 

[timothyloerke]

 

[Texian]

Wow! That is an immaculate coop! I can tell bc you are sitting inside of it with your daughter. Ha ha! So sweet.

 

[Sylvester017]

ok so i need help... i am wondering how much ventalation is needed... we will have the hole on the floor- im wanting 2 doors on each side with like a screen door as well so i can open during the day and at night close them up.... but.... then at night the only "window" would be the hole on the floor... help- any suggestions!I am from ohio so i need something that works in the winter months too

Repeating formula from prior posts: Minimum 4 square feet coop floor space per each chicken (4 chickens = 16 sq ft), 1 square foot constant open ventilation per each chicken (4 chickens = 4 sq ft), and 10 square feet run/pen space per each chicken (4 chickens = 40 sq ft). These are ballpark minimum requirements for a healthy flock. How you engineer it is up to you, your ingenuity, and your budget

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Our solution for ventilation during our hot SoCal summers -- a heavy duty dog kennel wire floor plus we keep the pop-door open which opens into an enclosed heavy duty dog kennel run:








White pop-door remains open 24/7







In winter, we remove the kennel wire floor and slide the solid floor tray into the coop and line with cardboard but still keep the pop-door wall open (to the right of photo - the pop-door on the floor is never used so we later covered it to give the chickens more floor space to walk around - it was dumb having TWO pop-doors in such a small space)

 

[Sylvester017]

Nice photos!

I suggest teaching adults, children, and chickens to use the "judge's hold" to handle hens to keep from handling them from their reproductive sides. All chickens at poultry shows, even the roos, are picked up this way.

 

[chick-a- doodle]

My 17 hens have been in the new hen house and run for a month now. They went from four separate groups in four tractors, to one big group, not without some drama, and bullying, which has been solved with Pinless Peepers on the most aggressive. Now, all have figured out their place in the flock and I am enjoying the new area as much, maybe more, than they are. The landscape on the east side of the run is done, the garden on the west side [not pictured] is planted. I am very happy with the first grazing frames, 16 feet, and recently added an additional 15 feet, x 24 inches wide. The last project is to pour and lay stone at the Coop Door.

For more details on the building and finishing of the hen house, or grazing frames, see my blog for the pages:
Chicken Coop / Hen House: http://chick-a-doodles.blogspot.com/p/garden-project-2017.html
Grazing Frames: http://chick-a-doodles.blogspot.com/p/grazing-frames.html

Electric fence surrounds the run.

If you have any questions, please ask!

 

[Sylvester017]

My 17 hens have been in the new hen house and run for a month now. They went from four separate groups in four tractors, to one big group, not without some drama, and bullying, which has been solved with Pinless Peepers on the most aggressive. Now, all have figured out their place in the flock and I am enjoying the new area as much, maybe more, than they are. The landscape on the east side of the run is done, the garden on the west side [not pictured] is planted. I am very happy with the first grazing frames, 16 feet, and recently added an additional 15 feet, x 24 inches wide. The last project is to pour and lay stone at the Coop Door.



For more details on the building and finishing of the hen house, or grazing frames, see my blog, http://chick-a-doodles.blogspot.com/


Electric fence surrounds the run.

If you have any questions, please ask!

Excellently planned and constructed! Lovely!

With the Pinless Peepers were you able to eventually remove them? I understand that even with Peepers the hens can eventually see well enough to continue feather picking or bullying?

 

[perchie.girl]

My 17 hens have been in the new hen house and run for a month now. They went from four separate groups in four tractors, to one big group, not without some drama, and bullying, which has been solved with Pinless Peepers on the most aggressive. Now, all have figured out their place in the flock and I am enjoying the new area as much, maybe more, than they are. The landscape on the east side of the run is done, the garden on the west side [not pictured] is planted. I am very happy with the first grazing frames, 16 feet, and recently added an additional 15 feet, x 24 inches wide. The last project is to pour and lay stone at the Coop Door.



For more details on the building and finishing of the hen house, or grazing frames, see my blog, http://chick-a-doodles.blogspot.com/


Electric fence surrounds the run.

If you have any questions, please ask!

absolutely love it. one question....

how do you keep your nest boxes from flipping over. I tried them once and had that issue.

deb