Temporary winter wind break ideas

[mdquilts]

What do you use to keep those cold winter winds from blowing through your run? Can it easily be taken down and used again the following winters?
Pictures please!

 

[ValerieJ]

I don't put anything up. I know my girls aren't supposed to like snow, rain, wind and all that, but none of it seems to keep them inside. I do have an outside shelter for them to go into to get away from it if they want to. In the winter they will go inside to have a dust bath when there is snow and mud everywhere else. For that I just used plastic drop cloths (for painters) and attached it to a framework that holds the corrugated roof. I weighted the bottom with t-posts and it works quite well.

 

[onaharley]

I use 4 mill plastic to wrap by duck pen. I buy a bundle of thin wood strips and nail the plastic with a nail gun! Works great and doesn’t tear.

 

[ellenscoop]

You can use roofing panels ziptied to the perimeter - like so

 

[K0k0shka]

You can use roofing panels ziptied to the perimeter - like so

Just a note that these are polycarbonate, not polyurethane

 

[doublecrossranch]

I plan to use clear tarps with grommets on the north and east side. I don't know how well it will work. But I'm trying to keep it nice for my chickens and ducks.

 

[mdquilts]

I love the ideas so far! I have rain blow in the sides during heavy storms and I know snow will blow in with a Nor’easter. I like the idea of tacking with wood strips too. My flock of fraidy chickens would probably go crazy if anything flaps around

 

[Folly's place]

I use rolled clear plastic, first staples, and then with wood strips screwed into the framing.
It's about six feet up, and open for ventilation above that.
The plastic holds up for a couple of years too.
Summer

Winter.

 

[CityslickerHomestead]

I plan to use clear tarps with grommets on the north and east side. I don't know how well it will work. But I'm trying to keep it nice for my chickens and ducks.

I am currently using this method and it has failed miserably. The wind is so vicious where I live, it just whips them all around and tears them apart. I plan to switch to something rigid like clear corrugated plastic that I used for their roofing in the run.
Montana winds can be nasty. We are currently in a winter storm and I was so naive to think the clear tarps would work at my place. Maybe if the wind wasn’t so bad, but it sounds like a freight train going through my chicken run the way the wind whips the tarps around.

 

[chickens really]

I use vapour barrier plastic and I have zero problems with it. It definitely holds in heat on sunny days like a greenhouse.