winterize run

  1. 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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  2. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Prepping For A Temperature Plunge Next Week

    Hello! We've had a relatively mild winter here in SWVA, however, we are expecting temps to drop next week, and I'm worried about my flock: First of all, is this an extreme enough drop that I need additional interventions like keeping them in the basement overnight (unfinished & not temp...
  3. Browniethechicken

    Considerations for wrapping run/coop in plastic to prepare for winter in Massachusetts?

    I’m including pictures. I have wrapped my run and I am wondering if I wrapped it too much. I live in Massachusetts. As you can see I have one section that is open. I feel badly that they can’t see outside much. Should I make a window in one section? I read that it’s most important to have the...
  4. Aquaticember06

    Coop fire- advice needed!!!

    I hate for this to be my first post but we desperately need some advice. We had the coop catch fire this morning. I smelled it before I saw smoke. I didn’t get out there to let them out at my usual time because I’ve been sick and I have vertigo. By the time we got out there, one of our four...
  5. CarlaCo

    Metal run in the snow?

    Hi all, trying to solve one potential problem at a time. We bought this metal run for our coop. I bought some tough tarp, but I can see how snow may cave in the wide expanse under the dome where there is little support. Does anyone who lives where it snows have a metal run? What kind of things...
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