Walk into a chicken coop on a hot, still afternoon and the first thing that hits you is the air — thick, stinging, that ammonia smell rising out of the bedding with no breeze to carry it off. The same heavy, stale air settles into a closed-up bedroom, a sickroom, a back room that never gets a cross breeze. Hot, and not good to breathe.
In this video I show you something that costs about seven dollars, takes fifteen minutes to put together, runs on nothing but water and a little moving air, and does two things at once: it cools the air coming into a space by a few degrees, and it cleans that air at the same time — pulling the stink, the damp, and the ammonia right out of it. It is the same material they put inside the air machines they sell for three and four hundred dollars, sitting in a tray for the price of a sandwich.
It is activated charcoal — not the briquettes you cook with, and I am very clear about that. I walk you through exactly what to buy, how to build it for a coop, a barn, or a stuffy room, where to place it so it actually works, and how to freshen it in the sun so one bag lasts the whole season.
I am honest about what it does and what it does not: the air-cleaning wo
