Yes my tarpaulin is trying to lift the whole run and it's a big walk in caged area. I've been putting heavy timbers on the top to weight it down but will worry that once the rain comes, the weight of water on it plus the timbers may collapse it in and of course it is my neighbour's not mine so I will worry about it getting damaged too. Ordinarily it isn't covered, so the wind just blows through and there is no strain on it. I removed the hen that was getting bullied into another pen with a pal but neither of them are very settled there and the bully has started on another young pullet, I decided that the bully was going to have to come out....didn't want to mess her around as she is one of the ones that is laying, but it's no good if she is keeping the others from food and causing them to stop laying. Spent half an hour trying to catch her and in the end I lost her out of the coop door (if doesn't fasten on the inside) in the wind, so she is now happily free ranging until I can get hold of her tonight. I will then move the other two back and hope that settles it. Finding it very stressful still and this wind is not helping. Thankfully the rain hasn't arrived here yet. Roll on Jan 6th and PLEASE ....no extension of it!
I'm going to order some disinfectant.
