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[Hermits Garden]

Morning Cafe! Welcome to Cafe @Hermits Garden
Easy sun day here rain is back in few day's.
We are just 1000 feet

I like the name of your town. Mossyrock has a nice ring to it.

 

[aart]

There.
Shade cloths rolled up and stashed over coop ceiling.

 

[DobieLover]

There.
Shade cloths rolled up and stashed over coop ceiling.

Do you put up wind shields for winter?

 

[Sally PB]

Thanks for the recipe. I'll need to find some GF pie crust, but this will be on my cooking horizon.

 

[aart]

Do you put up wind shields for winter?

Nope. If run had a roof, I would.
There is one place I put a wind shield, an old slider window panel on the north side of the 'under-run'.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I like the name of your town. Mossyrock has a nice ring to it.

It was named by Indians as they passed through the area.
We retired here very small town quiet no crime

 

[Hermits Garden]

Nope. If run had a roof, I would.
There is one place I put a wind shield, an old slider window panel on the north side of the 'under-run'.

I'm always reassured by your run, aart. Everybody tells me I should have a covered run, but there's so much shade here, and we're in the high desert rain-wise. I figure they'd like to have what little sun they will get, and I intent to use a snow shovel and straw for "paths" in the winter. They'll have a couple covered spots out in the run with roofs over them, but mostly, just a wire cover.

 

[aart]

I'm always reassured by your run, aart. Everybody tells me I should have a covered run, but there's so much shade here, and we're in the high desert rain-wise. I figure they'd like to have what little sun they will get, and I intent to use a snow shovel and straw for "paths" in the winter. They'll have a couple covered spots out in the run with roofs over them, but mostly, just a wire cover.

How much snow do you get?
My setup is not ideal, I wish my run was roofed.

I shovel paths, for access for me to do snow load removal and to give them some room to roam. They have a small sheltered area about 5x8, the under-run, to dust bathe.
But have a pretty large coop, 6sqft per bird on floor...plus the roost boards...for those days when it's too nasty to go outside.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We get so little snow here mine will not walk on it .. There are little spots here that stay dry of snow they will hopscotch the chicken yard.

 

[DobieLover]

I'm always reassured by your run, aart. Everybody tells me I should have a covered run, but there's so much shade here, and we're in the high desert rain-wise. I figure they'd like to have what little sun they will get, and I intent to use a snow shovel and straw for "paths" in the winter. They'll have a couple covered spots out in the run with roofs over them, but mostly, just a wire cover.

There is no way I would have built a run without a solid roof on it in my area.
This is from last winter. Granted, this was a record breaking amount of snow but we get a decent amount of snow every winter.

It was bad enough just shoveling my way to the coop. I can't imagine having to shovel out the run too.
And they use it year round. This is the winter run: