"Keep your vents high and your chickens dry." Haha. Perfect!

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

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Valuable advice to a novice-chicky-owner ... Thank you so much. Love your content. God bless you & your animals.

@sacredlysimple

16 күн бұрын

Thank you! Best of luck!

The front door on my coop is a piece of plywood that I have set up on a track that allows me to raise or lower as needed. I mostly leave it up unless the weather gets really crazy cold. In that case I lower the little door when they go to roost. It helps to keep that really cold winds out.

Thanks for the help. Someone once told me to keep one vent low and one high. That didn’t sound correct to me seeing how it would cause a draft across the chickens. Thanks for clarifying to keep the vents high

Catching up; you're making some great videos, keep it up!

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video! You can tell that you have a lot of love for your chickens.

Great information. Accurate and useful. I like the way you have your chicken area set up.

Solid good basic information. Well done !

Good info! Cute chickens!

Thank you. This was very helpful.

In the process of building a coop and was looking for ventilation ideas and your video came up. This was very helpful. Thank you

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

I'm really glad! I hope all goes well with your chickens and I'd love to hear updates! Blessings!

Very interesting

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr Burton

Super helpful. Thanks!

@sacredlysimple

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks a bunch for this. My roosters combs get frost bite every winter. I'm going try some roof vents on the south opposite of the cold north wind.

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

@davishlamburnt3734

Жыл бұрын

@@sacredlysimple Thanks.

Great! This is what I was asking for on the other video. Thank you. Do you worry about gasses from droppings filtering up to the chickens as they vent at the top?

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

We don't really find that to be a concern. Certainly not as big of a concern as low vents causing a drafty coop would be.

@martykuhn5894

Жыл бұрын

Ammonia gasses are unavoidable. A vented coop never reaches high concentrations.

I like your calm, factual presentation. This is off topic- is the roof over your run flat or pitched? I am needing to redo mine and like yours! Happy New Year!

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The roof is pitched slightly. I built the front end a bit higher up. I couldn't give you exact angles as it was a few years ago, but I felt it would help with shedding moisture and create a natural vent.

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry. I just realized you asked about the run and not the house! The run roof is pitched slightly too! We have 2 eight foot sections and we pitched them both! We just added a 2x1 to the middle. Enough to have the drainage run off the side.

I have a shed 10x16 with two vents 6x10 inches, one vent on each gable end. The coop is 4ft x10ft x7ft tall. Built inside one end of the shed. The coop has a ceiling with 4 vents above the chickens for ventilation to the gable end vents. Question and my concern is are the gable end vents large enough or should I add one additional vent same size to each gable end? TY

@sacredlysimple

8 ай бұрын

The main thing is getting moisture out of there. Also the ammonia vapers from the droppings. If you feel it's doing those two things then you're alright.

I hadn't thought about moisture from their poop. Do you clean that out more often in the winter then the summer?

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

We do deep box method, actually. We don't clean it out more often in the winter but we cover it with more bedding. It's actually a good insulator that way.

@stevenmckinney4174

Жыл бұрын

@@sacredlysimple Interesting. I'll have to research that more.

How did you make that sliding ventilation?

@sacredlysimple

Ай бұрын

It's just the cutout from the vent we cut. We hold it in with a block with a single nail so it swivels. If we want the vent partially open we just offset it.

Should you insulate your chicken coop?

@sacredlysimple

4 ай бұрын

You certainly can As long as there is still good ventilation. The hardest part is insulating it in a way that the chickens won't peck at it. Ours isn't insulated and we get down to the -20s some days in the winter.

@mustangg236

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info.

Just don't use that kind of wood it's extremely poisonous to chickens and is bad for their eggs I love the concept of your video I just don't want to see no chickens being harmed on accident

@sacredlysimple

Жыл бұрын

I have a video addressing why I use this wood.

@DavidFarmallow

Жыл бұрын

It's no worse than any manufactured wood... Plywood, etc..