Show me your coop ventilation :)

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Hi All,

I acquired a coop and have made some adjustments to it to increase ventilation, but it still feels like I need more. Can I see pictures of your coop's ventilation for some inspiration/ideas on how mine is doing? I can post pictures of mine later--its been awfully rainy these past couple weeks!

Thanks!

 

[Alaskan]

Here is my pond coop:

 

[rosemarythyme]

Was a little hard to get photos of mine. I have about 32 sq ft of ventilation NOT including doors in a 6x10 coop. All have hardware cloth sandwiched or secured with screws/fender washers.

These vent holes are just under the roof line at the top of the coop wall, there's 40 total:


Ridge vent in the roof and the inside view of a gable vent:


I have 5 windows that stay open almost all year, plus you can see the gable vent and one of the floor vents (red) here as well:

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

We have a solar powered exhaust fan (it was about $60), then two "shed" windows, and a permanent vent above one of our gutters that is [now] covered in hardware cloth. (Our coop was in-progress in this picture)

 

[aart]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-coop-page.65912/

 

[Drunkencabbagefarms]

For our transition coop for our 4 week old flock who isn’t transitioned yet to the larger flock who free range - we put hardwire cloth covered windows on both sides to increase airflow across the coop. Living in Florida it’s crazy hot and so more air and shade the better!

 

[concrete_boots]

You can see in upper right of this pic..I have 2 of these 3” round pvc soffit vents on opposite walls.
Also have a window with screen but close it at night.

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

I have two open/shut heat register vents one on front one on back. Also have a window and a roof vent. I also left some joices open.

 

[DobieLover]

Ridge vent = 3.3 sq ft
Soffit vents (area open between rafters) = 5.8 sq ft
Gable vents = 3 sq ft
5 windows with total area of 27 sq ft
pop door = 0.8 sq ft
Total ventilation area ~ 39 sq ft for 96 sq ft of chicken coop with another 32 sq of storage space/brooder room.

 

[aart]

@DobieLover now I want to measure all mine.