Old yard signs for coop

Our 3 hens are currently living in a coop assembled from a kit, located inside of a larger unfinished coop. We'll be getting more hens in the spring, and I wanted to finish the bigger coop to ensure they'll have enough space.

The big coop is mostly finished, just needs a few gaps to be filled in. There's about .25-.5 inch of space  between each plank in the back wall. I don't know if I have enough wood to fill in these gaps. I was thinking maybe I could use some old campaign advertising yard signs instead.

Anyway, if any of you old pros see any problems with this, let me know before I waste my time on a fruitless endeavor 🤣

I would think the yard signs would do well preventing drafts from bothering your birds. I have found that having air exchange high up to prevent condensation in the coop to be a good idea but making sure you don't have chilled birds takes precedent.

My coop utilizes dogear picket fence as the wall and then we nailed shake to cover up any gaps. It has served us well.

Any particular reason for wanting those little gaps filled Allen? I've always thought that if a little new chicken can't get out, it's good enough. Mind you it doesn't snow just here and I've planted so many trees that the wind can't even find the chicken coops.

Jay-  We've had problems with weasels here. I'm not sure, but I feel weasels could find a way to get through a .5 in gap. Also, there are 0 trees by my coop, so it gets really windy- a few years back wind chill was below -30

Allen Carlson wrote:Jay-  We've had problems with weasels here. I'm not sure, but I feel weasels could find a way to get through a .5 in gap. Also, there are 0 trees by my coop, so it gets really windy- a few years back wind chill was below -30

Minus thirty?  Move. Pack yer bags. People aren't supposed to live like that!  

Jay Wright wrote:

Allen Carlson wrote:Jay-  We've had problems with weasels here. I'm not sure, but I feel weasels could find a way to get through a .5 in gap. Also, there are 0 trees by my coop, so it gets really windy- a few years back wind chill was below -30

Minus thirty?  Move. Pack yer bags. People aren't supposed to live like that!  

While I'm here bothering people I might as well ask- when you talk about "yard signs" are you talking about things like for sale signs made of that hollow core plastic type stuff with the vertical ridges in it?

Yeah, -30 was a record low for that time of year I think (or at least close to one). Anyway, I was referring to those hollow plastic signs

Thanks Allen. I used heaps of those plasticky for sale signs when we bought this place. Cut them into rectangles with a sharp knife, maybe a foot or more wide and a little taller- the long axis in line with the ridges. You can then fold them easily into triangles along the ridges, wrap them around newly planted lttle trees and put a single tie to hold them- I use the pliers and ring fasteners I use on my fences. They protect the trees from critters, help to insulate them and they last for up to three years. When they start to get brittle it's time to bin 'em.