Condensation in metal shed-using as a coop

[ChickenCanoe]

Snow never hurt a chicken.

 

[aart]

Yeah, well, I don't want snow and rain inside my shed.<shrugs>

Snow never hurt a chicken.

I said 'shed' not 'chicken'

I wish you'd put up a coop page showing your chicken buildings @ChickenCanoe ,
I think they are much different from what most of us have.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I said 'shed' not 'chicken'

I wish you'd put up a coop page showing your chicken buildings @ChickenCanoe ,
I think they are much different from what most of us have.

Completely different. Maybe after I get these next two buildings built.
I wish I had pictures of the big two room hen house we had for 100 leghorns. It was quite a building. The larger room had perhaps a 20'X20' ladder style roosting area with a sloping poop board under all roosts and under the poop board were about 15 nest boxes accessible from long hinged doors in front. There was a similar setup in the other room, just smaller. There were about 5 broody jails hanging from the ceiling. There were a lot of very tall windows that could be opened or closed from time to time but there was always good ventilation.
If I still have a picture, it may even be a tin type.
They spent all their time free ranging in the orchards and permanent garden beds like the rhubarb bed that was right up next to the hen house.
There weren't nearly as many predators around here back in the day - before the day.
I'm in the process of Dismantling a grow out coop I built for one season and after 6 years keeping hens in there, mink were finally able to invade.

 

[aart]

Completely different.

Exactly...and why we all need to see how you are applying what you recommend.
Can't wait to see them.

 

[pintail_drake2004]

I would recommend a full length ridge vent on the roof, as well as some windows.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I would recommend a full length ridge vent on the roof, as well as some windows.

Ridge vents are great most of the year and two of my coops have them but when they are covered with snow, they're worthless except for the ends.

 

[Chercher72]

A couple of vents on the top of each side and a brooder lamp and that she'd will work. Make sure you use welded small square mesh not chicken wire. Super easy fix to make your shed work. Looks like a nice shed for birds. Vents a necessity though.

 

[pintail_drake2004]

Ridge vents are great most of the year and two of my coops have them but when they are covered with snow, they're worthless except for the ends.

Properly sloped roofs should shed the snow, preventing the buildup over the ridge vents.

 

[aart]

Properly sloped roofs should shed the snow, preventing the buildup over the ridge vents.

They would have to be very steep...and metal.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Properly sloped roofs should shed the snow, preventing the buildup over the ridge vents.

My two buildings with ridge vents have architectural shingle roofs in a gambrel shape. Including the fact that it is humid here, the cold space below the roof equals a snow pack that stays there for weeks or months.