VENTILATION page now up (in draft form, no pix yet)

[patandchickens]

OK, after contributing excessively

to a recent thread and reflecting on how a person can get tired of typing the same thing over and over, I have put together a personal page entitled "Patandchickens Big Ol' Ventilation Page; or, Go Out There And Cut More Holes In Your Coop! Now! Really Truly!". (Ok, so its formal page title is just "VENTILATION!")

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=1642-VENTILATION!

I will add photos, and prolly a bit more content, as time/children/weebly-slow-dialup-connection-to-Photobucket allow.

Feel free to comment (or criticize or complain

), but I hope that someone somewhere finds it useful when designing a first coop or troubleshooting an existing one.

P.S. I think I deserve some sort of brownie points, or at least brownie crumbs, here -- after writing all that out for the ventilation page, I thought "you know what, that would make a perfectly reasonable little magazine article I could sell somewhere; do I *really* want to put it here on BYC for free?" But I am doing just that anyhow. There, that's my good deed for the year, now I can be crabby and obnoxious and selfish for the whole next four months!

Pat

 

[chickiebaby]

Wait a minute - did you or did you not mean to be funny when you wrote "in draft form"? You're a genius!

 

[patandchickens]

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ROTFLMAO -- believe it or not, I did not even think of that. I truly did mean first-draft. I like your version better though (*you* are a genius!) and will have to find some way to work it in there

Highly amused and feeling like an idiot

,

Pat

 

[chickiebaby]

did I mention that the page is also super useful?

Thanks!

 

[Pullet Pimp]

Very nice article. You should put that in your signature for others to find.

I have also been following the 'other' ventilation treads and did note the vast amount of input and time you put in replying to all of the other threads. You seem very knowledgeable about this topic. This was a great idea and was well stated. It should clear up any confusion for others about draft vs ventilation.

 

[AllChookUp]

VERY nice, Pat! Thanks for taking the time and effort to create this!

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[fullhouse]

That's very nice! I am going to print it up and put it in my chicken folder

 

[patandchickens]

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Ok, done!

Thanks y'all,

Pat

 

[digitS']

Thank you, Pat.

Your interest in this subject should keep some chickens healthy and some chickenkeepers happy

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Steve

 

[orchidchick]

That's wonderful. Thanks for taking the time. I think we all need to spend at least as much time worrying about ventilation as we do about predator control; it's that important to the health of our flocks.

Orchidchick