Portable Run design and rain question

[posey]

Hi
We are first time chicken owners and have a mixed flock of brahmas, wyandottes, australorps, and silkies. They are all young yet and we only leave them out to peck and graze for about an hour at a time under our supervision in a temporary pen attached to their stationary coop.

Eventually, when they are old enough, we will let them out in the morning to hang out in their movable run and lock them in the coop again at night. We haven't made the 'tractor run' yet and are open to suggestions. We were planning on providing cover over the top from sun and rain. However they would get wet if the rain was coming down on an angle or worse yet blowing horizontal.

We are just looking to the future and are wondering what ya'll do to provide cover from incement weather for your chooks. How much of an issue is this?

What about a surprise rain storm when we are away from home?

Any thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks,
Posey

 

[Omran]

You also can build a little place for them like a boxed area to let them escape the weather if it get bad. like a little coop in the tractor run.