Here in colorado they're saying were expecting a worse winter last year. And it was pretty bad last year. Feet of snow which stayed for days. Couple storms knocked out power for a while. Thank goodness for the fireplace. Had to dig myself out of the house a couple times. Colorado was shut down...
Yup this is what we have. Got a 100ft roll of it at lowes, I think, for like 20 bucks. Used it on the green house and over our apple tree.
Amazing such a frail looking material has held up for you so well!! Will definitely remember this for future use. Probably when I move my grow out pens...
Isn't that all chickening is about? Experimentation, trial and error. It's been said a million times on many threads, just cuz it works for person a, it might not for person b.
We had many days where it was -12 with the wind chill factor. At nights it would get to -20. Actual temps were close...
Idk for sure how it does in freezing temps, I know it doesnt hold up well in the AZ sun.... but then nothing holds up well in that.
I was basing my theory off how easily the poo fork tines snap when cleaning stalls in the freezing temps. Our old house was wood, with a hinged lid, (we had 2...
Then make a snow-predator for them to climb on and destroy. Give them a sense of being towards the top of the food chain for once! And, you can tell yourself you're training your chickens in the lost art of chicken-fu, so you dont feel like it's a wasted effort.
Maybe even go so far as to play...
Just regular old netting from the hardware store? Weve got some 1" bird netting from homedepot. We used it on the greenhouse for doors to keep birds out
Our new coop has a slanted roof to allow snow to slide off. When we extend the run a bit it will have slanted top as well. I plan on using some old metal horse shed roofing for the run roof and possibly on the bottom of one side to prevent the snow from drifting in the run. The drifts are...
As with anything. We had quite a bit of sagging in ours too, but no collapse thankfully. It's a horrible thing to have had happen to the OP! It takes a lot of time and money to build a coop. I was just hoping to help spur some creative brainstorming to help OP for the next freak storm:confused::hmm
We had one of those, got 6 to 8 ft here!! They called it a bomb cyclone and that snow hung around for weeks. I had to go out with a snow shovel, all swollen and pregnant to shovel a way out of the house, to the coop, then used it to clear the snow off the top of the run. Thankfully our run was...