Please show me photos of your covered (as in with metal or other) runs

[jmagill]

This is mine as of about 10 mins ago.

We added on this summer. The coop itself is 4 x 16 and raised above the ground. It is divided into three sections. We added on the roof and covered runs this summer.
This makes the runs 8 x 4 with an extra 4 by about 5 under the coop.

We used fence rails for the rafters and supports and all the metal roofing was used from a replaced roof.

We get lots of snow and I needed a secure covered roof for the winter that could handle all the snow. You won't see most of the coop by the end of the winter
because of the 4 to 5 feet of snow on the ground.

I also needed it to be secure from bobcats. I have short pieces of metal roofing that will go up around the sides for the winter to keep the blowing snow out.

I have 6 to 7 chickens in each section. It works quite well.

 

[jackson41]

We used metal roofing and have been very pleased with it. We purchased it at Menards and it wasn't very expensive. How ever we had a hail storm and I kept thinking OH THE POOR GIRLS what a racket!

 

[sewchick]

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I like your run. I would like to know what your chickens watch. That is a tv?

 

[patman75]

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Suntuf is good stuff IME. It is polycarbonate, not the cheapie destructable pvc. I have one, soon to be two, runs roofed with it, and have been quite happy with it so far. I used the translucent white rather than clear (I think the company calls it "opal" or something dumb like that, but it is white and like 70%-ish light transmission). Two thumbs up.

Pat

Hey Pat, is the Suntuf UV coated to keep the polycarbonate from turning yellow? I was thinking of getting something like that for my run.

Thanks

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Here's when we were still working on it. I wanted one seamless roof line but my carpenter brother & builder misunderstood my measurements and made the coop 9 ft. tall. I didn't want to put the materials into run so dropped the roof by a couple of feet. We butted the run next to it. We get snow and horrendous winds. I put a tarp over the end to keep the cold weather winds, rain and snow out of the run in the winter (it's new so I've just had to do it once, it works.) The coop is 10 x 14 (including service area) and the run is 10 x 20. I have 19 chickens and it's been working out great. I guess I'll have to get some pictures of it now that it's finished. Wish I had money left over for some landscaping...oh well, next year.

 

[turbokev]

Like a few others here, I've put a slanted roof off an existing building (garage) to provide a covered run and enclose the coop itself.

 

[redfeather]

This is my run. It is currently covered with a tarp, but we plan on purchasing some white plastic currugated roofing panels for it. Would do steel, but... it would be so dark in an already dark, dreary, rainy climate.

 

[Ema]

this is mine. Covered with SubEx material used for road construction. We got it form Dh's boss who had a lot to spare.

 

[pontoosuc]

Not the best pic, but you can see the first part of the run with a metal roof with the remaining portion with 1x1 mesh.

 

[krcote]

Here is our coop and run back when we first built it this past spring... there was still grass in there!
We decided on a metal roof.

Supported by round posts.

Before the door was built.

Our solution to a door.

Husband's manly touch...