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[Penguin]

With the inclement weather recently we have spent the princely sum of £15 on stuff to weatherproof the girls' home. £10 for the plastic sheets and £5 for the bungees - sorted! Can't remember where we saw the original idea on the site, but whoever it was - thanks! Baked and Fried are most grateful...

 

 

 

(This is the first picture I have posted and I am not sure whether it will work ...)

[sallyj]

Looks great Penguin Your girls should stay lovely and dry now

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That looks good . Wish I'd found those blue bungees . They would have matched my eglu .

[Penguin]

B&Q do the blue bungees at the right length - I wish that we could have found green ones!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've got green ones .

[PeggySue1]

Thanks Penguin, my O.H. has been trying to explain this same cover to me, but seeing it in use has proved she was right

[siriradha]

Oh, that looks so much better than the sheets of limp plastic I had envisioned throwing over the run at my house! Is that plastic corrugated, or does it just look that way in the photo? It looks like the water might drain back towards the eglu. Does it completely cover the run? If not, why not and what are the measurements? I've never understood why the winter eglu run cover doesn't cover the run down to the ground. Educate me!

 

[Egluntyne]

The plastic is corrugated. I use it too.....and can't ever remember any problems with water draining back into the Eglu tbh.......and we get plenty of rain here.

 

Clear tarpaulins are another option, as are clear shower curtains. I've always found that they get torn to shreds by either the girls landing on them when out playing and possibly by nocturnal visitors.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Oh, that looks so much better than the sheets of limp plastic I had envisioned throwing over the run at my house! Is that plastic corrugated, or does it just look that way in the photo? It looks like the water might drain back towards the eglu. Does it completely cover the run? If not, why not and what are the measurements? I've never understood why the winter eglu run cover doesn't cover the run down to the ground. Educate me!

 

 

Ventilation, on sunny days it could get quite warm in the eglu run if it was covered skirt to skirt with a dark cover ........letting daylight in, not sure I'd want to live in a dark tunnel all winter.....I'm sure there are other reasons, but those are the ones I've come up with for the winter cover being small It's the diddy sun shade which makes me wonder

 

Sha x

[Penguin]

It's corrugated and comes from B&Q. Length is 1800 mm, width 660mm so you would need two sheets. It is just a bit shorter than the run, and I guess a bit of rain could dribble back down towards the eglu but that should drain away - we've got wood chippings in there so it will probably all get absorbed. You just overlap the two pieces at the top and then put the bungees over it. We did buy cable ties as well and were going to fasten the two pieces together with those after drilling some holes but it seems to be pretty firm as it is. The girls seem OK with it although would much rather be in the garden - as always!

[ubereglu]

Looks great! Nice and dry too.

[siriradha]

Thank you for the answers! My question about the winter cover comes from wondering how much protection from snow and rain it would actually offer with a stiff wind blowing. Wind is a big factor here.

 

CHICKENS COMING NEXT WEEK!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

This answer your question ? We also have ferocious winds here and the corrugated plastic withstood two winters .

 

[siriradha]

Oh! I was not questioning your splendid, brawny, corrugated plastic covering...I had my suspicions about the fortitude of the Eglu Winter Run Cover! Snort!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Sorry . Should have read your post more carefully .

[atsw]

We also had corrugated sheets on our Eglu, held down with bungies. It happily withstood all the wind, rain and snow that got thrown at it. I left a 2" gap at the point the run connects to the Eglu, so any rain running down the cover dropped into the run just in front of the Eglu, rather than going inside it.

 

We don't usually get much snow in my part of Oxfordshire, but the Eglu and it's cover withstood with the deluge we had earlier this year.

 

 

Andrew

[chick wiggle]

What brilliant pictures ANH and atsw. Atsw, your chooks are looking a little wary of stepping out into that snow, and I cant say as I blame them

[C&T]

Last winter I used a sheet of clear-ish plastic from homebase (I think..) to cover the run with bunjees, and worked well enough. But wasn't brilliant and had started to shred after a couple of months.

 

Summer the run hasn't been covered (bar a shade and sun umbrella) and had changed from Hemcore to Woodchip. Now winter is approaching ( ) and again looking to cover up the run and move to hemcore again. This corrugated plastic looks great - but is it noisy when it rains?

 

Our neighbours bedroom windows are all pretty close (as are we) to the chickens, so have to consider the noise aspect...

 

Can't believe been nearly a year with chickens!!

 

Thanks!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

This corrugated plastic looks great - but is it noisy when it rains?

 

No . I think because it's wavy and it doesn't give at all, the rain just patters on it. I certainly never noticed any noise!

[C&T]

This corrugated plastic looks great - but is it noisy when it rains?

 

No . I think because it's wavy and it doesn't give at all, the rain just patters on it. I certainly never noticed any noise!

 

 

Thanks!

[alex_m]

It leaves quite a big gap at the bottom. How do you protect them against the wind?

[Falkor]

It leaves quite a big gap at the bottom. How do you protect them against the wind?

 

I think the first pic has two sheets of plastic on. Last winter I did have three on the eglu run sometimes which obviously meant it was covered a bit more.

 

Some gaps are needed for ventilation though.

[alex_m]

Thought about a third one. Just fitted two last night and it has rained since then so good timing