FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[FireflyNights]

It's beautiful but I think your dog wants it.

 

[dolfi]

It's beautiful but I think your dog wants it.

 

[FireflyNights]

I think we need some poultry, fowl, game bird etc hurricane tips. Since even a deppresion can ruin a chickens day. The feathered hurricane survival guide if you will.

I can actually board up my coop if necessary but it doesn't help with flooding. My back yard where the chickens are fairly high and dry but not during a a drepprssion or above.

My quail cages are on wheels like my parrots so we wheel them inside.

I don't no what I will do if we ever get hit by a really big one and need to evacuate.

Anyone else made shared plans will help us come up with some good ideas.

 

[cmom]

My coops are up off of the ground. We live up on a hill (Hilltop Farm) so the whole state would flood before we do.

 

[bamitsbrittany]

I think we need some poultry, fowl, game bird etc hurricane tips. Since even a deppresion can ruin a chickens day. The feathered hurricane survival guide if you will.

I can actually board up my coop if necessary but it doesn't help with flooding. My back yard where the chickens are fairly high and dry but not during a a drepprssion or above.

My quail cages are on wheels like my parrots so we wheel them inside.

I don't no what I will do if we ever get hit by a really big one and need to evacuate.

Anyone else made shared plans will help us come up with some good ideas.

I was reading about this and the article said that you should buy a plastic dog cage (large) and put your chickens in there and evacuate with them. Just like you would take your dogs. lol Im not sure how it would work if you had a ton of birds.. I only have 7 chicken girls. That is my plan. hahah =] If there are better ones I would love to know!

 

[Runawaylobster]

I think we need some poultry, fowl, game bird etc hurricane tips. Since even a deppresion can ruin a chickens day. The feathered hurricane survival guide if you will.

I can actually board up my coop if necessary but it doesn't help with flooding. My back yard where the chickens are fairly high and dry but not during a a drepprssion or above.

My quail cages are on wheels like my parrots so we wheel them inside.

I don't no what I will do if we ever get hit by a really big one and need to evacuate.

Anyone else made shared plans will help us come up with some good ideas.

I just finished building a new coop, it is bolted down to a concrete slab with embedded eye bolts (luckily i just happened to have one laying around.. ) i am attatching the uprights to the base with angle brackets and then using hurricane ties for the roof members. It won't hold up to a cat 5 or probably a 4 but i reckon it can hang in there in a 3. Only problem is if all the chickens will all get along stuffed into one 8-4 coop. Plan b is to put down a tarp in my spare room and use temporary fencing to bring them all indoors... Have about 50 chickens right now..
I will empty my PVC coops take the tarps off so the wind will blow right through, and tie them to the trees in the lychee grove..

 

[counsil]

Thanks

 

[cmom]

When you have around 300 to 400 birds at any one time, it doesn't leave many choices. We have been through some close calls the year hurricanes Jean, & Francis went right over us and Charley down the coast. The coops survived. The only thing was a part of a tree blew down over the fence into a pen. The birds stayed right there. I guess they felt more secure in their pen than getting out where the tree had fallen.

 

[FireflyNights]

I only had my 20 parrots during jean and Francis no chickens or quail yet. I have travel cages for them but I cant imagine the chickens being seperate they are glued to eachother at all times. I can't imagine the stress worrying about hundreds would have caused.

 

[bamitsbrittany]

This is remi in the kiddy pool!


Finally my flock is united no more 3 separate groups running around the yard!