Coop collapsing under snow and ice!

[The Sheriff]

We had snow this morning in Sacramento!

I think it's time to take the umbrella down!

 

[Rangely]

12" of snow yesterday and 5-10" more forecast for tonight/tomorrow. Roof is clear. My hens free range during the day. My coop is a 8'X3' with a slanted, hinged roof. I prop it up and all 10 birds sit on the sill and stare at the snow despondently. the australorps are the only ones that hop down and play in the snow. Usually I shovel a path from the coop to the compost bin and it become a 60' chicken highway.

 

[StupidBird]

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Or your DH or DS... just a reminder of why I was the one who had to shimmy up on the shed roof to lay the paper & shingles. (That problem was fixed later by adding T1-11 siding). Now that coop I'm collecting freebie materials for, I'm ignoring the committee and building it MY way.

And that's an excellent note about planning for clueless caretaking in emergencies.

It hardly ever snows here, but when it does, its heavy wet with lots of ice... and then folks act all shocked that things fall down.

 

[AtholCoop]

This was last December, and people ask me why I build my coops so high off the ground. We got 6' just in the last two weeks of December alone.

If it won't support the weight of an adult, it won't make it through a typical winter here, we topped out at 12' by the time winter was over.