We put a metal roof on the coop, and then HEARD the rain!!!

[Autumn Mama]

Okay, thanks for the patience while I pull my foot out of my mouth (insert smilie of blushing-and-embarrassed person here).

I really need to drink a cup of coffee *before* I read posts, lol!!

I apologize, Beekissed, for jumping to conclusions about your intent!

A sense of humour is a good thing, I'm sensitive sometimes, I grew up with not-always-friendly sarcasm, often aimed my way.

I do tend to see my chickens as more pet-like, I think simply because that's been the realm of my current and prior experience with animals. I am open-minded though,

It sounds like maybe we'll insulate the metal with something, and probably more for my sanity than for the chooks' sanity, lol!!!

The metal DH picked up is realllly thin, so it does make the rain louder...

 

[Diva]

I got tickled at Bee's comment! Laughter is heaven for the soul! Happy soon to be Mother's day to all mothers. Human or pets!

L.

 

[lleighmay]

My house has a metal roof (I LOVE it). My coop has a metal roof (it's what the shed I remodeled came with). My partial pen roof will be metal when I get it finished. Tin is all my girls have ever known. I've been in the coop before when it started to rain; it didn't seem to affect their behavior in any way. I confess I love my chickens but will I remodel (an already sound roof) to what I think they might prefer? NOT.

 

[beak]

It's funny, I actually took that into consideration when building both my horse loafing shed and my chicken coop. Here in Colorado we get a lot of hail. It's noisy in the house when it hails. I can't imagine what it would be like with a tin roof. I used plywood with felt and shingles.

Seems like you could glue some inch thick styrofoam sheets to the underside. I actually have a ceiling in my coop with open eaves and holes in the ceiling for ventilation.

 

[beak]

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well with some people you never know

I do, I do.

 

[Pitchfork]

Autumn, I not only have a metal roof on my coop but I work part time for a company that rolls and forms the sheet metal used for metal buildings and roofing. If you can afford to purchase it I would use reflective bubble insulation, such as Astrofoil. It is easy to use and helps cool in summer as well as helping to warm in winter. You simply tack it across your rafters before you install your sheet metal. You can insulate the entire coop with it if you choose. We sell a great deal of this as it is so easy and so effective. My part time job is driving a delivery truck to deliver the metal to job sights and construction companies that are building metal buildings or roofing companies that are installing metal roofs. And more and more people are using this material. I used it only on my roof and it is strong enough that my chickens have not torn it or bothered it in any way even though from their roost they can reach it. In hind sight I should have made my coop taller, actually I should have lowered the floor of the raised coop, and so once on the roost the chickens are only four inches or so from the insulated roof. The rain noise does not bother them at all. I built sort of a modified playhouse coop with a covered run 4' x 12' and raised coop on one end. I used Astrofoil over the entire roof and it helps a great deal in the Oklahoma heat.
Hope this help.

 

[Beekissed]

I must admit, I will intentionally go out to the coop on a rainy day, just to soak it all in with my peeps! I like to sit out there and they will come over and stand next to me, seems almost like they get lulled by the rain like I do. Nice time to just be together and think rainy day thoughts. Some of my best ideas come to me at these times.

Now they will go and roost on the sides of the sheep shed pen under the tin roofed run-in on the rainy days....almost as if they think I built it especially for them! See? Even I start to think of them as a little human after awhile....I think anyone who spends a little time with livestock can't help but try to imagine how they feel or think. Either its instinct or we are real lonely people!

 

[Autumn Mama]

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Yes, I am really looking forward to the peace I feel around the chooks when I'm outside with them. It will be great to look up from various places in the yard and around the farm and just notice them doing their thing.

Hopefully the run will be big enough to allow me to go in and be with them, too. I am planning to construct a PVC tractor (all by myself

) and then I can bring them, in smaller groups, to wherever I'm working or playing with my boys!!!

 

[Sissy]

hens dont seem to mind the pitter patter of the rain
and our home has a metal roof.
its a relaxing sound for us.

 

[nightshade]

our current coop has a metal roof and they don't seem to mind.