Best place for flock during a hurricane

[NancyNurseCxMama]

I do have a garage and could conceivably crate them inside my "chicken room" in the garage. It would be a lot of work to catch all eight of them and set them up, but It is possible.

If possible, take them off their roosts at night---much easier to grab them at that time than running around and trying to catch them (been there, done that, lol).
My coop is heavy and secure but it is near some big trees that I fear might come down in a hurricane.
I bought two dog exercise pens. They are the kind that fold flat. Each one is sixteen square feet and I can connect them to each other to make 32 square feet---plenty of space for a temporary pen for my six girls. 30" high.
They will go in the basement if it's dry or up in the garage or even the kitchen if need be.
This is what I got---I will put them on a tarp, add pine shavings, and toss some bird netting over the whole thing.

 

[coach723]

Best of luck to all in the path. We are in N.Central Florida , so will get the dirty side of the storm if it maintains the current predicted path. We are as prepared as can be.
Will be losing power sometime today most likely, and probably for a while.

 

[rdfields68]

Prayers for you and everyone down there!

 

[trudyg]

It may be too late for you, or impossible with a shoulder injury, but here's what I did yesterday. My coop is an 8X12 prefab barn/shed up on blocks. Wind could shift it, so I wanted to tie it down. I went to Tractor supply and got 'augurs'--red things with a disk on the bottom end, they come in 15" long up to 4' long. I wound this augur down into the ground, one for each corner. then I got wire cable (Home Depot has 6' long with the loops already fixed on each end) and some turn-buckles and J-hooks. After looking inside to make sure I was screwing into a stud instead of just the siding, I attached the J-hook to the outside of the coop. Then, one loop of the cable around the eye of the auger and the other loop of the cable over the turnbuckle hook, other turnbuckle hook over the J-hook and tighten the turnbuckle. It only took an hour to do all 4 corners, the hardest part was winding the augur into the ground. I used a long screwdriver for leverage (like a T handle at the top) and thumped it with a mallet every time I turned to force it down. Good luck.