Keeping your chicken coop ventilated is one of the most important things you can do for your chickens! Whether you have a rural farm or ranch or a small urban hobby farm or homestead, the basics are the same. Keep your vents high and your chickens dry!

We have backyard chickens in an area that has quite a large climate variety. We have hot triple digit summers and below zero freezing winters. Our system, while not the only option, works in all of those extremes. But our small Homemade DIY chicken coop does the trick. when I researched how to build a chicken coop, there was very little information on air flow. Here's what to know before you build yours!


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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:22 Our Climate
0:59 Why Ventilation is Important
2:15 Put Vents Up High
2:56 Direction of Coop
3:38 Plastic Sheeting
4:05 Sealing Low Gaps
4:21 Our Door Problem
5:13 Summer Ventilation
5:30 Don't Overthink It
6:08 The Golden Vent Rule





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