Hoop house solar heat. Keep chickens laying all winter.
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2024
- This is a modification to our previous video on heating our hoop house with solar energy. The switch to a clear reinforced tarp has increased the amount of heat captured in the hoop house. This has raised the temperature another 10 to 15°. Hope this helps someone else with their cold weather egg production!
I used a heavy mil white tarp to weatherproof a pallet run covered in hardware cloth.I wish I could use one like this!
You can also get fiber reinforced plastic at most farm stores or big box lumberyards. It will be thinner than the fiber reinforced tarps. The trade-off is it is significantly less expensive. We just bought a 20x50 roll for $119 to make a small greenhouse to start flowers. The equivalent tarp was $315.
@@growntogether9913 The sun hides behind a mt until 12 or 1 o clock every day and the eve sun burns everything to a crisp once it comes out. My hoop house green house would make a good coop so I may convert it soon.Thank you very much!
Where did you purchase the tarp?
Amazon can ship you a fiber reinforced tarp. If I were going to do it again I would buy a roll of 6mil fiber reinforced plastic sheeting at the lumber yard. A 20x50 roll was $97.