What's the temperature where you are???

[Ponypoor]

Dangerous weather. All winter I walked to the garage without any problems, without wasting time getting dressed, and I didn't catch a cold, although it was often below -30 C outside, and this time, when it became almost "warm", I went out as usual in just the shorts and T-shirt I wear at home - and a runny nose bothered me for a long time at night. Apparently the snow is starting to melt and the air has become damp. Now, when I go outside for a short time, I still dress properly. I don't know, maybe tonight I'll even light the stove in the barn where my goats live, which I usually light only if it's below -20 C outside.

I find my allergies are bad when the snow melts due to snow mold.

The damp cold weather is hard on all animals and people. My horses are good with this -20C weather, but when it rains they are miserable. Horses and cattle are Plains and Steppes animals, they are good with cold dry and hot dry weather.

But if it’s damp or rainy that’s when they have issues.

By tomorrow the temps are supposed to jump up to -1C!

And rain Tuesday and Wednesday (+5C both days) and rain on all that snow on roof tops is bad news - we have had so many roof collapses on houses barns and sheds this winter. I hope and
Pray my snow load and any rain won’t harm my roof.

As it is one section of my roof has an ice dam causing moisture to back up under the steel roofing and now it’s inside my wall, dripping water. I will have to rip that wall open and remove the insulation and repair the wall. But only after I can get the ice dam broke up and removed. Going to be a lot of chipping with the hammer chisel and hatchet.

By next winter I will have heat trace cable on the roof to melt any ice build up there.

 

[Nym]

12.31p.m. clear and cool -ish after a mostly sunny day. 21.3C / 70.3F. Another week of forecast showers.

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[Island Coppers]

Mist
39°F
4°C
Humidity 100% !

Trying to keep the humidity in the coop down is impossible and doing a dry hatch just isn't the same..

 

[Ponypoor]

Mist
39°F
4°C
Humidity 100% !

Trying to keep the humidity in the coop down is impossible and doing a dry hatch just isn't the same..

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Beautiful - is that salt or fresh water?

 

[Ponypoor]

Mist
39°F
4°C
Humidity 100% !

Trying to keep the humidity in the coop down is impossible and doing a dry hatch just isn't the same..

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For the coop I guess an exhaust fan is your best option.

 

[Island Coppers]

For the coop I guess an exhaust fan is your best option.

Unfortunately that would just pull air with 100% humidity into the coop. All the ventilation and exhausting in the world won't change the physics of this problem.

 

[Ponypoor]

Unfortunately that would just pull air with 100% humidity into the coop. All the ventilation and exhausting in the world won't change the physics of this problem.

If you have an enclosed coop you can place a dehumidifier in there, this is what we do in the basement apartment we have in the house, in the Spring and summer here due to high humidity levels, and the high water table - our sump in the basement runs all the time and makes it very damp - we have a portable dehumidifier and it works great, just need to make sure the area is closed.

 

[Island Coppers]

With the amount of ventilation built into the coop a dehumidifier would be trying remove humidity from all the great outdoors, not really a viable option.

 

[Ponypoor]

With the amount of ventilation built into the coop a dehumidifier would be trying remove humidity from all the great outdoors, not really a viable option.

Yep Mother Nature will win every time that’s for sure!

Only option then is keep on doing what you’re doing.

In Newfoundland (where my family is from) where it’s constantly raining and foggy, the hen houses are built so the flooring is off the ground, lots of straw and such to keep it dry, and clean poops every day.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

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