tarp

  1. StinkyAcres

    Are there any tarps that don't degrade within a few months?

    I hate tarps but I need them....I recently bought an "extreme-duty weather-resistant tarp." I think it's been outside for a little less than a year and it is no longer waterproof and it is shedding tons of tiny bits of plastic into my chicken run. :he Has anyone found better tarps or...
  2. Ronnie_

    New Tarp - Ducks Hate it - Help

    I was winterizing my coop:enclosure this past weekend and replaced the tarp that covers the top of the enclosure as it was really weathered and falling apart to a new tarp. (Blue tarp to a gray one) and put up windblocking plastic sheeting on 1 side of the enclosure. My girls as mad. Both are...
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  3. Elspeth Dinsmore

    Using A Tarp To Lower Ground Temperature

    Hello, all! Today I discovered something that I wanted to share with everyone. With the sudden increase of temperature, my family was trying to figure out how to keep the chickens from overheating. We have been taking frozen, sealed water bottles out to keep their water cold. We have been...
  4. fuzzi

    Hoop Coop Retrofit

    I live in eastern NC, USDA Zone 8a, aka a hot and humid climate. I built my hoop coop this Spring, and it appears to be holding up pretty well... ...except for the tarp on top, despite the fact that it's supposedly a "heavy duty" tarp. The hem, including the grommets, ripped: Original...
  5. amynw

    Goose ate a strand of tarp string

    We have a tarp covering our wood rack and about half way up (around 3 1/2 feet) there is a hole and it is frayed. The only spot on the whole tarp. My geese could never reach this spot until the latest snow. Now they can. I was washing dishes and looking out the kitchen window to one of my geese...
  6. Sire12

    Can you use tarp sheets to line a chicken run to make it easier to clean?

    I'm moving soon and I'm going to make a narrow run for my chickens about 4-5 foot wide and 40 foot long, it's going to be connected to their coop and nest boxes and il only put them in here when it's dark so for most of the day they will have free run of the rest of the garden - but since their...
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