Ventilation questions! Help me design this coop please!

[Limepink]

Ventilation questions!
Hey all, I have a few questions.
I have this old loft bed that I would like to design a new coop out of. Our original (dog house design) was a failure in terms of air flow..
I plan to keep it up how it is, and put hardware cloth between the slats on top. I will add windows for summer airflow, but as we approach winter I realized I lack a lot of knowledge and am not really sure what to do with this one.
We are located in Oklahoma, so generally we have wind, mind winters but we have had spells of 0 degrees for a few days. We also have about a month of summer with awful heat.
So my questions are..
1. Should I slant the top roof or keep flat? Which direction? Short side slanted or the longer length slanted?
Another option could be to cut 2 of the legs shorter to keep more vents up top if it was slanted.
2. I have seen diagrams with air holes near the bottom for flow.. are those nessessary? I am concerned of it making the birds cold, would those be something I would want to close in colder months?
3. Majority of the air holes up top should go east/west, is this correct?

I appreciate any and all input on this! Just want to make sure this project will be successful, as I have already had to modify their current coop a few times.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Ventilation questions!
Hey all, I have a few questions.
I have this old loft bed that I would like to design a new coop out of. Our original (dog house design) was a failure in terms of air flow..
I plan to keep it up how it is, and put hardware cloth between the slats on top. I will add windows for summer airflow, but as we approach winter I realized I lack a lot of knowledge and am not really sure what to do with this one.
We are located in Oklahoma, so generally we have wind, mind winters but we have had spells of 0 degrees for a few days. We also have about a month of summer with awful heat.
So my questions are..
1. Should I slant the top roof or keep flat? Which direction? Short side slanted or the longer length slanted?
Another option could be to cut 2 of the legs shorter to keep more vents up top if it was slanted.
2. I have seen diagrams with air holes near the bottom for flow.. are those nessessary? I am concerned of it making the birds cold, would those be something I would want to close in colder months?
3. Majority of the air holes up top should go east/west, is this correct?

I appreciate any and all input on this! Just want to make sure this project will be successful, as I have already had to modify their current coop a few times.

Interesting idea!

I wouldn’t just cut down two of the legs. The whole structure would then be tilted.

Do you get much snow? Especially heavy, wet snow? And ice/freezing rain. This packs up in the holes in the hardware cloth.

Are you planning to cover any or all of it against hot sun and precipitation? If so, you’ll want a slant, probably around a 3:12 (1 foot up for each 4 feet across. Or is it in a section of run that is already covered? At any rate, you’ll could cover the (flat) top with HWC and THEN add a top, without having to do additional HWC, as the “ceiling” would already be secure.

If slanting, I’d go with long side up for better airflow, but depending on how high the gap (higher would be better), short would probably work as well.

Vent holes at bottom: I guess this depends on how solid (gap-proof) your walls will be. I would make sure that there is some means of fresh-air intake. Think of a heat-circulating fireplace insert.

 

[Limepink]

Thank you for your input!
We do occasionally have ice/sleet/snow.
I was definitely brainstorming on the go with cutting the legs. I get that would not work, as hardware holding it would still want to be level.
For clarification I do plan on putting a roof with shingles on the structure, then attaching this to the existing covered run. There will be an overhang on each side so as long as it’s not sleeting sideways they should not freeze open, definitely never on all sides either.
We generally have the doors open on coop all day, and just close up overnight. So it will have considerable fresh air intake half of the day. If I made a slit under where they roost (on the wide side) that would be ok since the air wouldn’t rush across the birds sleeping? It would go diagonally up to the opened slats?