Winter coop: how to create optimal conditions for laying hens

The content of the poultry on deep litter, wall insulation foam and other developments FORUMHOUSE participants to create a comfortable temperature in the house

Chickens - folk thermophilic and rather flimsy. Winter, especially in cold regions, always becomes a serious challenge for them, and if a chicken coop as it should not insulated, wintering becomes especially difficult. Ice water in the drinkers, drafts, permanent darkness - from the birds that live in such a harsh environment, we should not wait any eggs or good health.

Kansei

Member FORUMHOUSE

In the village chickens have lived in the wooden shed, with no insulation, the temperature there was a little higher than on the street. Chickens do not freeze, however, sometimes a rooster comb freeze. The downside is that under such conditions the chickens in the winter almost no rush, and if will carry, and you do not keep track – Egg freezing and bursting.

In this article, we will tell you how insulated their poultry houses in the winter, participants FORUMHOUSE.

Content:

• How to equip chickens angle garage
• The content of the chickens on deep litter
• Warming of the chicken coop inside foam
• Lighting coop in winter
  

Winter maintenance of chickens in the garage

The usual story: the summer vacationers buy five chickens, and at the end of the season do not know what to do with them. Send your new friends in the soup does not raise a hand and a chicken coop, where they could spend the winter, not yet. But chickens can overwinter and continue to lay eggs, if they provide the following conditions:

• daylight hours for about 14 hours;
• air temperature of 12 - 17 degrees;
• a complete, balanced nutrition;
• netesny henhouse (no more than one bird per square meter).

We examined in detail on FORUMHOUSE, how to organize Winter feeding of laying hens specific examples of daily diets.

Here are two stories of participants of our portal, which organized a successful winter chickens in the garage.

Member FORUMHOUSE TheSib He started in a newly built country house economy of the three hens.

TheSib

They lived, happily ever after, throughout the summer and early autumn, ahead of winter, cold, frost is expected. Sami went into the city, and the chickens were in a cold chicken coop with hopper feeders and water, which was freezing in the morning. My question is: is it possible to put these pets in a vegetable store, if they can survive the winter without natural light, Do not touch chickens mind?

Here is how the result has been organized wintering: in the vegetable store, located in the underground part of the capital garage with ventilation, was made otgorodka approximately square meter for thermal insulation made bedding, wall TheSib studded foam.

TheSib

Seen enough of the living conditions of the birds from the other participants and straight was a shame. What is this! My little chicken that was born in Siberia, and even spend the winter should be as necessary. Soul could not endure, go, everything is insulated with foam, attached a nipple drinkers.

Against the advice of experienced poultry farmers of our portal, TheSib I not buy a timer, having judged that the costs for the winter should not exceed the cost of the chickens themselves. He just bought a red neon lamp with 3 Watt consumption per hour. This "red corner" chickens lived until April, before leaving on a free-range.

In the garage moved and summer chickens member of our portal tat2041. For seventeen chickens and rooster fenced off eight square meters of the garage area, the light turned on and off by the timer, the floor is made with galvanized sides. In a brick garage with iron gate was cold, so the ceiling had to install an infrared heater with thermostat. The fence installed bunker trough 12 liter, 25 liter drum of water.

tat2041

Lighting garage carrying the timer, the timer on the hood, too wound up. Light and extractor included at 4am.

All winter 17 chickens every day carrying 10-11 eggs.

How warm the coop foam

hens wintering in the garage can be an interesting one-time experience, but people who breed birds seriously think about how to build a chicken coop stationary.

Participant of our portal 1974Sopa1974 on the eve of winter urgently build a small aviary of cinder block 4h2.5 meters, height 2.2 m. The ceiling is insulated, hit fiberboard and painted. In the house shall winter broiler and quail, and the task is to insulate it from the inside without a large reduction in area.

1974Sopa1974

Participant FORUMHOUSE

I think I can afford 5 cm on each wall.

Despite the fact that many members of our portal consider that the coop should be warmed from the inside only, internal insulation foam shows good results. He was not getting wet, although it has two drawbacks:

• His chickens peck.
• It settle the mouse.

Therefore, foam or plastered, or even protected in some way.

Stucco stick to the bad foam, so our party portal Plotnikkk It offers the following plan of action:

• put foam on the ground, gruntuem any primer;
• immediately apply a layer of cement plaster;
•  Three days later fix foam plastered to the wall henhouse "mushrooms";
• zapenivaem gap between the sheets of foam plastic with foam;
• permanent link again well all the plaster, lining the walls and covering the joints;
• Belim walls lime chicken coop.

Chickens can not peck protected plaster foam, mouse, does not proberutsya it.

But the sandwich chicken coop walls using foam, which made party FORUMHOUSE aib. From the inside outwards: plywood, painted oil paint (3 mm), foam (10 ka), edged board (20 ka). Outside the coop is lined with galvanized iron. Henhouse is since 1991, the heater is turned on only in extreme cold, below -25 degrees.

Antondr

Member FORUMHOUSE

I foam 5 cm above the well insulated house, the meter on the meter and a half tall. Throughout the winter burning one IR lamp is 250 watts. It was a plus.

Most importantly, the walls were no gaps: more than cold weather, chickens are afraid of drafts.

Warm walls henhouse foam, many owners of chickens begin to worry that you will get a thermos: drafts will not be exact, but if moisture appears. Therefore, in such coops without ventilation is indispensable.

Velem

Member FORUMHOUSE

Hood required! And the minimum heating, occasionally "Breeze" include the most frosts. Although not think so much condensate will.

Deep litter: natural insulation henhouse

The village where the chickens in the winter were kept in the same room with the cows and sheep, heaters are not required: the animals warmed themselves. But in the hen house, you can dispense with infrared heaters, if they could give the birds a deep litter. For this:

• pour the floor slaked lime (per square meter henhouse 1 kg of lime);
• pour a layer of straw or sawdust. The thickness of the primary layer should not exceed 10 cm.

During the winter, a layer of litter will trample down and get wet, so you need to loosen his fork and pour fresh straw. Litter through what is happening in her composting processes, would target the natural warmth, and, if the premises do not walk drafts, and out of all the cracks are not whistling wind, in most cases this will be enough heat to maintain optimal in the henhouse temperature. Even in extreme cold when the content of the chickens on deep litter is the minimum required heating.

skol00

Member FORUMHOUSE

Chicken coop I did not insulated, concrete floor, I sprinkle it with straw. Quiet and can withstand temperatures down to -25, maybe more - I do not know, I just live in the south of Ukraine. Chickens do not freeze.

The optimum temperature in the hen house in the winter - 12 - 17 degrees.

An important point: deep litter in the chicken coop suggests the presence of air, or in the house will accumulate ammonia emissions.

The light in the chicken coop

For winter egg production in hen house light is essential.

Paul T.

Member FORUMHOUSE

Still give advice - the light of the chickens do not operate only at feeding time, and all. Then the eggs will not be at all ...

In winter, the chickens do not rush, because in nature they lay eggs like other birds, for procreation. Artificial continuation of daylight helps cheat nature by creating an artificial hens eternal spring.

If you want to continue to carry the chicken, turn on the lights from 6 to 9 am and from 6 pm to 9 pm, prolonging thus the daylight hours to six hours. In this light day should not exceed 14 hours, so that the hens may rest.

On FORUMHOUSE you will learn the ins and outs for laying hens in the winter, You will be able to explore different options coop heating radiators. In the collection – hen houses to suit all tastes from simple to automated. In the video, – how to arrange garage coop with the cells.

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