Ventilation Question

[jreardon1918]

I think this is an excellent idea! if you can do so, you can leave one or the two side doors open for ventilation, or as @jreardon1918 suggested, leave the panel under the overhang by the entrance open (or don't install it if you haven't assembled the kit yet).

Leaving the whole panel off is an even better idea.

 

[Aleema913]

Bought this coop as our first coop - as soon we put our 6 weeks chicks in, we realized the coop was way too small. Added a wall, a platform to double the space. But the coop leaks after rain, covered with tarp, no ventilation, pretty awful! so we bought another coop soon after (all happened before we learned about BYC!) Lesson learned.

You can see our modification in the first photo, we never close the entrance, leave the two side windows open and covered with hardware screens when weather permits. But still pretty aweful in terms of ventilation when we have to close up.

After the second coop was added to the complex, only 1-3 chickens on average roost in the first coop nightly (mostly 2).


For the second coop, we replaced the entire big wall on the right side of the second coop with hardware screens when weather is warm enough (late spring/summer/fall) for ventilation.

Had we known better, the costs of the two coops would have been enough to purchase or build a much nicer, bigger coop.

That brown and green coop is the same one I have..how many chickens do u think can fit comfy in there

 

[linguini]

That brown and green coop is the same one I have..how many chickens do u think can fit comfy in there

Two is the best, probably no more than four adult chickens. The roosting bar is too small for them.

We let the chickens choose for themselves, usually 1 or 2 sleep there at night. Very rarely have we seen more than three roost there at night. But chickens are funny - they've got their own minds. Sometimes even the arch enemies pair would sleep nicely together in this cozy coop.