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reddogmaster2 said:
Maybe I should post this in the garden forum but lets run with it here in the Sin Bin...

So Mrs Reddogmaster is harvesting some zucchini yesterday and she says she got them all. This am she makes a few loaves of zucchini bread and is upset that we might be at the end of our zucchini plants production.

So she walks out to the garden and comes back in with this MONSTER of a Zucchini!

How did you miss this? I ask! She just giggled.View attachment 2217158
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That's huge (then she said ......) oh, never mind,
 
perchie.girl said:
Yeah my plan as well. I am moving home on a part time basis while they finish the house propper I am going to live in my Art Studio. My place is in the High Desert of San Diego County. About three thousand feet.

Been using tarps now for seventeen years. Now I am at the point where I cannot do the tarp thing any more. I am going to rebuild the Coop moving it to a new location. Easier access closer to the horse corral and going to run a dedicated water line to each. Been using hoses too for seventeen years. I get two years out of one hose. Not bad.

It gets hot here and very windy so when i put the tarps up over the chainlink tops I have to run a zig zag of rope to hold them down. Makes em last longer too.

The next iteration of poultry housing will be a 24 x 24 Poultry house with room for feed storage and an aisle that is wheel chair accessible. (planning for the possible future) The main goal also is to provide a full on Roof to cover the structure. I have enough tin roofing from an old horse shelter to do half of the roof. We do get snow but not more than Three or four days at a time. The chickens can handle it.

Our main nemisis here is the wind. I have found Steel trash cans 100 feet out in the Chaparal. It blew down two horse shades untill I hired a Pipe corral company to build me one that can withstand the snow load and wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour.

deb
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Yikes, we get wind too, but sounds like not quite as bad as you get. We tie down shade cloth with zip ties/wire ties/cable ties (everyone seems to know them by something different). We start by securing with little bungees and then go back around with zip ties every foot. How do you zig zag rope to secure them?
These shade cloths are great but they only last so long, and they are not inexpensive. I've thought more than once I should just have put carports over all the runs, would have to have them custom made and installed, we're too old to do it ourselves anymore I think. I might start getting quotes and saving (and saving and saving) to try and get them done next year. Would solve the snow and the shade problems all at once. DH said, yeah, but the birds would all be deaf after a couple hail storms.
 
pozees2 said:
Yikes, we get wind too, but sounds like not quite as bad as you get. We tie down shade cloth with zip ties/wire ties/cable ties (everyone seems to know them by something different). We start by securing with little bungees and then go back around with zip ties every foot. How do you zig zag rope to secure them?
These shade cloths are great but they only last so long, and they are not inexpensive. I've thought more than once I should just have put carports over all the runs, would have to have them custom made and installed, we're too old to do it ourselves anymore I think. I might start getting quotes and saving (and saving and saving) to try and get them done next year. Would solve the snow and the shade problems all at once. DH said, yeah, but the birds would all be deaf after a couple hail storms.
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And with a carport cover, the chickens would go crazy, looking where they parked their cars!:oops:
 

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