Will they be okay in just their run?

[lhayes1976]

The run is finished, and the girls are in it. It's completely predator proof, but there is no shelter. Will they be okay for one night? I'm so nervous--this is their first night out of the garage. I do have a tablecloth I could put at one end. There coop is finished, but we need some extra help in getting it moved to it's permanent spot. I just cannot put them back in that rubbermaid container.

 

[Silkie Sue]

is it supposed to rain

 

[animalpro24]

Do you have a small table or boxes you can set out there for them to have shelter? That would work.

 

[motoclown]

Put the plastic tub out there turned on its side or a box.
Maybe a log or roost.

 

[ChicKat]

If you have enough space in your run....which you seem to have, put a temporary shelter in for the 1-night. Tell them it is a camp out until their new digs are ready. That way they will get in the habit of going IN, and if bad weather comes up overnight they will have shelter.

 

[lhayes1976]

No rain tonight--I did flip their old rubbermaid container on it's side and put a piece of cardboard over top of run over the container, but they've decided they would rather huddle in the corner of the run.

 

[Silkie Sue]

they should be fine

 

[lhayes1976]

Yeah, they made it throught the night. I worried all night about raccoons. When I went to check on them this , they had scratched all the shavings out of the tub. I really want to get my coop in there, but it looks like one more night.

 

[7L Farm]

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You didn't use hardware cloth for the run? Do you have a apron around the bottom . If not I would fixs these problems.

 

[lhayes1976]

Yes the run is made out of hardware cloth, but no apron around the bottom. That's the part that had me worried--we put some boards and rocks around the bottom.