Vent vs. Draft - I'm so confused!

[SteveBaz]

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You're talking about for a HOUSE. Nobody I know poops and pees on the floor inside their house or lives at anywhere near the density we expect chickens to live in. So, venting a coop is NOT the same as venting a house. If you put one small intake somewhere in the coop, the air will not flow evenly and your ventilation will be ineffective. The intakes need to be all along the eaves, evenly spaced, to add up to about the same square footage of venting as your ridge outlet.

I'm using a version of this with a slant roof. The low and high sides are open on the top 6". Air flows in the low side, up the ceiling, and out the high side. It works GREAT. But just popping a ridge vent on and sticking an intake in the gable? Not so much.

Not to be argumentative but you do not know what the hell your talking about when it comes to a ridge vent. So when was a ridge vent put on your house and coop? How many training seminars have you attended about roofing? How many roofing companies have you had personal training with? Me, lets see in addition to being a corporate trainer for a decade or more but I am familiar with Gaf, CertainTeed, IKO Roofing, Malarkey, Owens Corning, Dupont and Pabco to name a few I represent. How long is you vast roofing experience? How about you, which companies did you work for or represent? Which major companies did you do bids for?


With posts from people like you a reader must figure out what is BS and what is real, like the crap you quoted above.

You're talking about for a HOUSE. Nobody I know poops and pees on the floor inside their house or lives at anywhere near the density we expect chickens to live in.... the laws of physics do not change. Warm air rises. Draft and air flow still need a siphon process with air entry and air exit

air will not flow evenly and your ventilation will be ineffective ...... to have even flow of air you need only a small intake and have a huge exhaust to get air to flow

The intakes need to be all along the eaves, evenly spaced, to add up to about the same square footage of venting as your ridge outlet. You could not be more wrong!!

But just popping a ridge vent on and sticking an intake in the gable? Not so much. You are so off base I do not know where you learned all the crap your spewing

 

[SteveBaz]

3scorpios and viewers

I apologize for my response. I felt the information presented was not proper.

 

[w8tn4fresheggs]

I like the post from AV Brahmas. It makes sense. I live in Nebraska and haven't lost one of my girls in four years because of the cold, drafts, etc. Here is my coop. Wide open below and open on both sides(north and south) on the underside of the roof. Girls are roosting in the middle.

 

[fiddleman]

Wow... this thread took a couple of turns, huh.

In my experience... in the middle of snowy Michigan, we can get enough snow easily to cover a roof vent in the winter for weeks at a time. For proof all I have to do is look at my father-in-law's unheated garage... with a roof vent and eave vents. We can stay below freezing day and night for weeks at a time- snow flies over and covers the entire roof, ridge vent included.

My neighbors garage, has a cupola... stays above the snow.

For this reason alone I am going with an extended cupola on my coop next spring.

I figure as long as the chickens don't have a vent where the wind can blow on them directly... they'll be fine. Some friends of mine have a coop, but the only reason the chickens go in is to lay their eggs. They'd rather be roosting in their bushes next to the house... summer and winter, rain or shine. Some are 8 years old. If they can take it outside in our winter weather, I figure a dry place out of the wind would seem like heaven to mine!

Mark