Ventilation and Solar Fan Build for a Backyard Chicken Coop

We are so proud to show you this! RSM and RSD have added some solutions to keeping their backyard chicken coop cool during the hot Texas summers (which have already started!). See some simple ideas and the big deal: a solar fan build. Get lots of tips and learn strategies, as well as what to look for, to keep your flock from getting too hot. RSM has lots of other videos about how to keep your chickens cool so please subscribe and check out the channel!
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Fan:
La Crosse Wireless Digital Forecast:

[melanies]

Was thinking staking down a canopy over the entire coop. Then mounting the solar panel on a stake. Love the 2 fan concept.

[gabrielleleigh]

Hi! I was wondering, 3 years on, if this is the same setup that y'all are continuing to use? Or have you tweaked/modified it over the years? I remember in another video the consensus was that one battery might not be quite enough to run both fans...would adding a second 12V battery maybe help with that? Or have you found other hacks to get around this? I just got this same coop and working on painting/sealing/assembling but definitely thinking ahead...I'm in north Texas so basically it still gets realllyyyy hot in the summer but it also doesn't rain hardly at all between end of May and mid September. :) So definitely will need some system to keep the new chicks cool this summer after they arrive.

[addieanderson]

Great system. I may do this as the fans I had were just for the nest boxes and only lasted 1 year.

[MyCheerfulDaze]

Black roofs attract heat. What are your thoughts on painting the asphalt roof a lighter color to keep the coop from getting too hot? Can asphalt roofs be painted 🤔

[alisongrafton]

Hi Sarah! I purchased all the items from your links and my husband was wondering how did you hook up the brushless motor fans (with the 3 wires) to the thermostat?

[topcat]

I am new to chickening. My run will be completely covered/roof and the sides are open, and my coop is off the ground like yours. It has a window on each long side and the roosting bar also runs side to side. With the window's across from each other, I was going to put a fan on the outside. It will blow in one side, across the roosting bar and out the other. So a fan blowing on them at night won't hurt the chickens, right?

[carolineibanez]

Thank you 🙏 my chickens will be much cooler

[wildpaisley]

Help, we got the solar kit and not everything is connecting up 😢😭 and it came with no directions. It's a 110 here in AZ. HELP 😢

[dannyg]

Can you use a thermostat from a house?

[BeanBossBarista]

Hi, quick question. The temp sensor you have inside the coop (the white rectangle box) is that just for you to have a general idea of what it is since you can view it inside?

[GraphicallySpeakingMimi]

Question please… Is it more important to pull hot air out of the coop or have outside air blowing in during hot summer months. Not sure we have room for two fans so trying to figure out how to keep my girls cool before it gets super hot here. They won’t be ready for the coop until late July so trying to get everything else ready. We will have predator proofing underground around the coop & run as well as hardware cloth on the sides of the run and a solid roof over the run as well so wondering if we can just leave the windows open (covered with hardware cloth) with one window fan. Help!

[steffie]

Thank you! I have all of the parts, but I'm stumped on how to connect the controller to the thermostat and the thermostat to the fan. Please advise. Thanks, Steph & Chick Chick

[lockeduprc]

Sorry if I missed it someplace ... what size panel are you using? And you said something is about half power so would you recommend a larger panel and or battery than you are running?

[larryschmitt]

Why not paint your roof white? White won’t draw heat like black does. Or you could adapt roof turbo where the wind powers it

[gsRt]

A ridge vent would help even more I would think. Top looks sealed to me :-/

[elininorman]

Live in San Antonio too, is there anyone that might be interested in a Rooster? We thought he was a she and we are not equipped for a rooster, neighbors are not thrilled!

[mazterfranky]

What happens when it goes over 90 degrees?

[Carla-lbwx]

How are all the fan, battery and thermostat connected together?

[patti_kakes]

Thank you SO much for this!!! Here in SW Tennessee, our temps are hovering around 75°-80° on average, but that is NOT gonna last long. Temps will soar to the high 90’s very soon. My birds are already panting occasionally 😣 I have been wanting to check out solar panels for a while now, and now I’m going to really get serious about it. I bought a mister that connects to the hose, and I tried it out the other day and they ran and hid from it until I turned it off 😕 but then they came out after it turned off. Then I gave them a nice cold head of cabbage to snack on and they cooled right down.