winterize run

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...

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...

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...

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...