Ventilation Basics for Any Chicken Coop in a Cold Winter

[@staceykelley]

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

[@sacredlysimple]

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[@minomokwa744]

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

[@sacredlysimple]

Thank you! Best of luck!

[@rogerknight2267]

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.

[@brandonb6274]

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

[@forgedoutcomes]

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

[@sacredlysimple]

Thank you!

[@davishlamburnt3734]

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]

Best of luck!

[@davishlamburnt3734]

@@sacredlysimple Thanks.

[@colettejo]

Good info! Cute chickens!

[@nodakjohnsful]

Solid good basic information. Well done !

[@brokendolly6967]

Thank you. This was very helpful.

[@lindarobbins5532]

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

[@Mary-had-a-lil-farm]

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

[@lisagardner9798]

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]

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

[@danielburton6221]

Very interesting

[@sacredlysimple]

Thank you Mr Burton

[@sebastianmaldonado6921]

Super helpful. Thanks!

[@sacredlysimple]

Thank you

[@oceanrythms]

may i recommend removing linens , for it will attract mites. And adding charcoal to coups mitigates off gassing.

[@jessfarehurth]

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]

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]

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

[@lulabelle4760]

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]

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]

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.

[@stevenmckinney4174]

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

[@sacredlysimple]

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]

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

[@ellieross9472]

How did you make that sliding ventilation?

[@sacredlysimple]

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.

[@bikeoffrd1196]

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]

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.

[@mustangg236]

Should you insulate your chicken coop?

[@sacredlysimple]

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]

Thanks for the info.

[@johnnycash5520]

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]

I have a video addressing why I use this wood.

[@DavidFarmallow]

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