Marky D Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 How windy was it yesterday.........1st time ever my run was blown off it's base and came away from the coop, got home from work to find my 2 having a ball in the garden doing a bit of cheeky unsupervised FR. Unfortunately for them the hatches are well and truly battened down now lol. Wind died now, just got the rain instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickcluck Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 wow, can't believe that! Have you pegged it to the floor now? Your chooks were very lucky to have escaped foxy bet they loved the extra play time tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meezers Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Tell me about it ! We've had high winds for two days now , and though my WIR is 3 years old and has coped well with winds before, it still doesn't stop me lying awake all night imagining it's roof going flying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky D Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Not pegged it down yet but got a wooden garden seat at one end, long piece of wood forced up to shed at other end and a few large plants pots etc strategically placed lol. Dont see many foxes round here thankfully but i know they are there, plenty of cats around us so may help warn him off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bramble Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Still ridiculously windy here, horrid, good time for the chooks to try flying lessons though!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percy049 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 the shades on the run act like sails, pulling the run and onto the flower bed! we've put Violet and Bessie into the garage so they can actually walk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sari Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 My girls have been very distressed by the wind, squawking and carrying on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I'm totally with Percy094 on this - for the past 2 mornings I've either had to retrieve the eglu and run from where it had been blown too or, even more worryingly, yesterday one side of the run just blew in whilst I was out, halving the width of the tunnel and miraculously not squashing or trapping anybody. I've put bricks and tent pegs round the skirt now. I've never had anything like this before, but then we haven't had wind like this during previous 6 years either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyhole kate Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Still mega windy here to I dreamt last night that the roof had blown off my WIR what a relief to find it all intact this morning and thankfully my eglu is still in place we do have 6ft fences which I guess acts as a wind break however we do live on top of a hill which dosen't help still we wont ever have to worry about flooding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 It's been quite amusing watching our birds with the wind up them. The big girls have been trying to keep their balance whilst 2 of the pekins were bowled over - and one of them went rolling down the path. Never seen anything so funny, poor little birdies! But it seems to pick up overnight and for the past couple of nights I've wondered if the bungee ropes could keep the plastic roof on the cube run. Always a relief to see it intact, although I think they are in the more sheltered part of the garden down at the bottom. Hopefully the oak tree and the hawthorns won't lose any branches either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 When we had a couple of windy days a few weeks ago the roof actually did blow off my coop Thankfully it was in the daytime so I soon spotted it, but poor Dorothy had been in there trying to lay her egg, poor girl. Unsurprisingly she kept her legs crossed until the roof was back on! I now have it secured with multiple bungee ropes, pulled very tight, but still can't help peeking out of the window every time there's a gust of wind, even in the middle of the night. So far, so good though... but still can't wait until this wind drops. On the plus side, it's dried the ground out beautifully, and the chooks have spent the last few days digging to Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky D Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Good old mother nature, she sure knows how to keep us on our toes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelbel Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I've been waiting for my whole set up to fly away these past few days. We are waiting for some better weather so we can, finally, build a 'proper' WIR. And with a new conversatory roof also in the offing, I have plans for the old panels to make the WIR roof. Rather than the corregated sheet and tarpauling I currently have. Tarpauling that, despite being really well battened down, is threatening to take off in this wind. And flipping dumped tons of water ON ME when caught by a big gust of wind when I ventured out to top up food/water today - not once, not twice, but THREE times. I look like a drowned rat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfin Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Yes, the wind is not good. Very windy again today. So far it's managed to blow over my very heavy cement mixer and totally trashed my neighbours greenhouse. I've now revised my thoughts on my planned WIR. It will have more roof supports and fixings to stabilise the planned corrugated roof. Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooker Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The wind blew down one of our fence panels saturday eve, of course, it had to be the one fence panel that provided a boundry to the chicken run! Luckily our run can be segregated into two, so they are now all locked in the left hand side of the run, away from the fence. The only thing is that part of the run is about a third of the size of the whole run, its about 2.5-3 metres squared....we've 7 girls!! They are already getting a bit techy with each other....and we are mid doing our kitchen (it is complety gutted at the mo so no going back!) working full time and very time and cash poor! ekkk, it could be 3-4 weeks before we can replace the fence panel! pants! Rachel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelbel Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Cooker - can you tie the panel back in place in the interim? We've done that before now when times are hard - and our drive is a wind tunnel so they used to come down with regularity until we, gradually, replaced them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneyolktoanother Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Tell me about it ! We've had high winds for two days now , and though my WIR is 3 years old and has coped well with winds before, it still doesn't stop me lying awake all night imagining it's roof going flying i am the same i keep getting my oh to check and check again, and i can't stop looking out the window checking i am such a worry guts. glad that your chucks was ok and just having a good time roaming . But they were lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneyolktoanother Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 It's been quite amusing watching our birds with the wind up them. The big girls have been trying to keep their balance whilst 2 of the pekins were bowled over - and one of them went rolling down the path. Never seen anything so funny, poor little birdies! But it seems to pick up overnight and for the past couple of nights I've wondered if the bungee ropes could keep the plastic roof on the cube run. Always a relief to see it intact, although I think they are in the more sheltered part of the garden down at the bottom. Hopefully the oak tree and the hawthorns won't lose any branches either. my chooks don't seem bothered by the wind if they get cold they go and shelter under the coop but now give them the snow and they are scared witless they would'net come to fr at all when it snowed as soon as it had gone they legged it out!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austele_1 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Mine are fine with the wind until a huge gust comes and there nearly blown away. I've secured their Go down with around 200 camping pegs in the hope this will stop it from going anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-DiamondChick07 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 One of my Serama Hens took a flying jump and a gust of wind shot her over the roof this morning still no signs of her I have neighbours looking.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 aahhh, poor little thing I hope you find her soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-DiamondChick07 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 aahhh, poor little thing I hope you find her soon. Thanks, I have one more garden to check, but they're at work at the mo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracyann Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I hope you find the missing hen soon. Not got my chooks yet (get them tomorrow), but my cats have been acting strangely with the wind, they are rescue boys and are the soppiest things going but even they can't take the wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-DiamondChick07 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I hope you find the missing hen soon. Not got my chooks yet (get them tomorrow), but my cats have been acting strangely with the wind, they are rescue boys and are the soppiest things going but even they can't take the wind. Exciting! Where you getting your girls from? Animals (and my son) seem to go bonkers in the wind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-DiamondChick07 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Panic Over. Neighbour found my hen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
