Here ya go *gives you two double fudge brownies*OOOOhhh oh me me! Not even that cold here in NC but me loves brownies. I don't ever make a pan of brownies, because I will eat the entire thing myself. I have no self control in regards to brownies.... strangest thing too, I'm not that big of a chocolate person. I'm weird.... I know.. my SO tells me so enough.
We used 6mil opaque plastic. It is white, so keeps it bright in there. We secured it to the wood frame of the run with furring strips and screws. The only thing I will do differently next year is to have some bales of straw on hand to stack around the bottom when it’s really windy. Right now, I just have some scrap wood leaning up against the bottom to keep the breeze out. There is ventilation at the top, so the ground level and roost level stays pretty still.
I cut up a huge plastic bag my new mattress came in, lol. Stapled it up and helped keep it from ripping off the staples by putting a few bungees from 2x4 to 2x4 horizontally. I wrapped the bottom around bricks. I only covered the north and west sides because that's where our prevailing winter winds come from. My run is small tho, I only have 4 bantams. When I go inside the run, it's really nice, no wind and the sun shines on the coop warming it.
Fisher cats and eagle are both scavengers as much as predators... makes me think all the more there's a carcass or something nearby...
...and I didn't say it was cool, I said I thought it was cool... and I still think it's cool to see a Fisher... but I understand why you might not with your chickens so close
... I guess it's all about semantics... and the proximity to said Fisher, and ones own chickens!
In any case hope it stays out of you and your neighbors coops!
