YO GEORGIANS! :)

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Looking at all the posts, I missed all the fun yesterday! Job got in the way of the fun
ep.gif
(Just figured out how to do the fun emoticons!)

The partridge cochin is so beautiful! Oh boy, I don't have the first chicken here yet and I am already thinking of more than my planned 3...
 
RoswellOrganic said:
Thank you so much for taking the time to look. Your suggestion makes tons of sense, so glad you saw it!
I am struggling a bit with the idea of the ventilation without a draft.I took the roof design from the "open air poultry houses book", in all his designs the roost are on the back side that does not have any openings. So if I put the roosts on lengthwise, only 3 feet would b draft free, the last 2 feet the chickens would have their heads right on the vent openings. I could not move the nests to the lower level, right? They like the nests higher?
I had initially thought of doing a barn style roof with the vents on the whole length above it. That would give me 5 feet of rosting space lengthwise,12" high up and the ventilation would in the middle, so no drafts on sleeping chicken. I could still keep the nests in the upper level, which is easier to gather and clean.

 
Click to expand...


Yes. Keep nest higher. As long as you have air coming in from the bottom (ramp) and it going out the top (vent area) I think you will be ok. I have a small shuttered window over my nest boxes. Is there a spot there for a small venting window. My window is under overhang so no rain can get in and the shutter closes if we are going to have major storms. Don't forget you can also add some daytime roosts under yourcoop too. My coop has all sorts of easy clean things.
 
Talking to my customers today i hope y'all are coming ready because there are A LOT of eager people to buy/sell/trade chickens and i know of quite a few goats, sheep and great Pyrenees coming also.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom