Rural Gardening: New to the forum, New coop questions, 1 by Niere

Niere wrote:
Hi Everyone--I've been a member of Dave's for a while, but I'm new to this forum. In a few weeks we'll be getting eight guinea keets and later this summer we hope to add a few chickens as well, probably Rhode Island Reds. I was wondering if I could ask the folks here some questions about our new coop. I'll post some pictures so you can get a good look at it. It's a beautiful coop, but I knew when we bought it that we were going to have to do something to improve the ventilation. It has three windows, but even with them all open it gets tremendously hot inside (the roof/ceiling is insulated with that thin silver insulation--can't remember the name of it right now). I'm thinking we need to add some sort of fan, like an attic ventilation fan that is used in houses. Any suggestions would be very appreciated--the keets won't be arriving for another two weeks, and even after that they will probably spend a week or two in a makeshift brooder in our mudroom to make sure we keep them at a nice even warm temp. So we have about a month until the little guys will be going into their new home. And yes, we will have it wired for electricity.

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

*Edit*--the coop's overall size is 8'x10'.

This message was edited May 26, 2010 1:12 PM