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As cold and windy as it gets, do not insulate and plan on 1/2 square foot per bird venting in the eaves of the coop. Chickens expel a lot of moisture that needs to rise and float out the eaves. Keep your roosts low in the quiet air near the floor. Vents on both sides of a slanted roof. Leave them open even on the coldest of nights, chickens can survive temps well below zero if they stay dry. Wet chickens however can get frost bite and freeze to death. So only close off SOME of the vents on windy nights that will suck out the heat bubble they themselves have created near the floor. Never close off them all.

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Welcome, BYC is full of information and experience. Paint is drying on this latest project. Outside access for nesting boxes so I do not have to open the big doors. The idea is when it is cold and blowing I do not have to let the heat out. When I work part time I do not have to worry about opening the big doors and having chickens escape into the yard when I am about to leave for the day. I might add insulation of some kind because eggs do freeze in my part of Ohio in the winter if kept in the nesting box all day.
 

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