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I would like to hear more about the why's as well, I plan on doing more outside research because I really love the idea of deep litter but my coop is in fact raised. Just on knee jerk assumptions I would guess maybe it can't stay warm enough with the draft underneath the floor of the coop? I...

I had never even considered the coop being raised would make a difference... duh.. thank you!!! I'll be looking into these baffles asap!

Sounds like we have the same weather, my condolences!! The composting in the fall to work in the winter makes perfect sense, I wonder if my setup isn't allowing the bedding to compost in the coop. Another thing to get creative with, thank you for the input!!

Yeah ventilation has really tripped me up, our ventilation takes up most of the opposite wall of the chickens roosting area and all four corners of the coop, the wall kind of has an overhang towards outside of the coop covered by chicken wire and the roof hangs over a good amount to in theory...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets confused, that makes me feel way better! I looked over everything before the storm and thought I had everything tightened up but it won't hurt to look again, I only started to worry after some of the girls slowed down and a couple stayed under the coop...

I'm in the Midwest and we just made it through a nasty blizzard but the Temps are still crazy low, it's -14 right now with a real feel of -29. I've been super worried about the girls but they seem to be hanging in there ok. We use deep litter method and I heard it adds a little warmth in the...