Help! Need a quick fix

[Beaker99]

I have an A Frame (I know, I know, don't come at me) bare floor coop. Works great in summer. However, we had plans to put a floor in and add bedding for winter. A nasty forecast decided for us that it should be built this week. Husband came down with the flu and didn't get it done.
I need a quick temporary fix. My concern is inside getting wet. Rain followed by colder temps (20 at night). I have a picnic tent I can put up. I have some leaves and pine shavings I can put inside.
Thoughts?

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Do you have any pictures of your coop? Being able to see your coup would allow everyone to better assist.

 

[Beaker99]

All I have at the moment. I'm at work.

 

[Kanekoded]

I have an A Frame (I know, I know, don't come at me) bare floor coop. Works great in summer. However, we had plans to put a floor in and add bedding for winter. A nasty forecast decided for us that it should be built this week. Husband came down with the flu and didn't get it done.
I need a quick temporary fix. My concern is inside getting wet. Rain followed by colder temps (20 at night). I have a picnic tent I can put up. I have some leaves and pine shavings I can put inside.
Thoughts?

I might think to attach some sort of floor to that (plywood, an old table top, folding table, kiddie pool, picnic table...anything with a large enough flat surface) and then set it up on some cinder blocks to help in keeping the floor dry. Then you could wrap your picnic tent around it in such a way that you can use the weight of your coop to tuck the tent under to hold down the edges leaving a small triangular opening in the corner of one of the open sides. Then add an off-the-floor perch lengthwise to the side opposite of the open triangle to keep the direct draft off your birds while they roost. In a quick pinch, I think that's the best I could do.

 

[samanthaoverton]

You could put bales of straw around it and then a tarp on top. Just make sure to weight the tarp down. You can also use garden staples to secure the tarp to the ground.

 

[Beaker99]

Ok. Only had three boards long enough to go the length of the coop. I moved it to higher ground (I think) and filled the bottom with leaves and pine shavings. Put the tent up. Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[Krugerrand]

You might be able to put a cattle panel hoop over the top of it. Then a tarp on that.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I was thinking set the whole thing on a used pallet, throw the leaf litter in. Quick fix.

and if you can get enough free pallets, use them to build a different style coop when you have more time.