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So my sick chicken has been doing amazing! Right full of it and trying to escape constantly. Until last night when we gave her her medicine. I drop it in the end of her beak so she swallows it on her own cause I am afraid of it going into her lungs. I think somehow she got the last bit in her lungs. She started sneezing and got raspy and still is this morning.
 
LG I know where your coming from on the skirting. All fall I have been meaning to rebuild my run for winter. I hate to say it but the girls will have to make due with the present one till spring.I hate this one too cause I have to go out and take the wire off the top so the snow load don't crush it. Next year's will have a roof and tall enough for me to walk around in it. If there was only more warm weather and hours in the day!
 
Looks like Friday is going to be the only warm day projected... make it work, ladies.

I stupidly left the head of my hose in the duck pool last night. Now it's frozen in 5 inches of ice. Hopefully Friday will be warm enough to melt it so I can put the hose and pool away for the winter.
 
Yeah, I still have wood to get in... now under snow. Have no truck. No car for that matter b/c they both chose to break down within a week of each other. Now, hubby is borrowing his Mom's car. Have leaves to collect... need to go to the dump... no truck. I feel like my hands are tied behind my back. Sick kid to add to the misery! Even if I can get the back filling done on the installed skirt, it will be a sloppy job b/c some of the skirt is sticking up above the trench, with 4" of ice in the trench. So, if I back fill, the wire will not be settled at the bottom of the trench like it should be. I hate winter. Nice fire burning the past 2 days, though. Nothing heats as well as wood heat.
 
We've been frantically "winterizing" here, too. Luckily the wood is done, I think I finished that last weekend. Still have to make a cover for our outdoor water access... one of the bad things about having a new (metal) roof is that my water access is continually entombed in concrete snow that comes off the roof. I didn't anticipate that and last winter (the first winter post-roof) was brutal for me. I really had no idea. Does anyone have anything that they've made that covers the spigots that works well? I would like to be able to get my 5 gallon bucket for water-running under it without moving it. BF built a nice triangular cover for our kitchen exhaust pipe (which bent due to the concrete snow pack last year, plus we were unable to use it since it was entombed) but that's not going to work for the spigot.
 
What about snow stops? DH used to have the cement snow piling by his shop and freezing the garage door there shut until he got snow stops.

I went out today and tried to block my rat entrance. Digging inside the hoop coop is still good, although I hit some frost reaching toward the outside. I know I can't complete the entire perimeter of the coop this year, so I just dug down and filled the area with rocks and hardware cloth scraps and filled it back in. We'll see how long that lasts.
 
You could install them. There are different kinds, and how many you need depends on the length of your roof. DH just did 3/4 of the roof, as snow sliding off the last section was not in the way. His went on the flat part of the metal with screws and caulk, but there is a kind that goes on the standing seams if you have that kind of metal roof.
 
Another idea, a short (3 foot) piece of hose to fill the bucket with, so it doesn't have to fit under the spigot. Are you having to dig out the actual spigot, or just a place for your bucket?
 

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