Solitary chicken - need advice

[lovelyelm]

Hi all, I'm a new chicken keeper and have an Eglu Go Up for my two girls. I'm currently moving it around weekly but am planning on making a fixed wood-chip run in the next couple of weeks. Lots of people advise that you make you cover your run to make it as weather proof as possible to minamise on mud and wet chickens. However, the Go Up's run has a narrower top than bottom and the cover that came with it is hopeless! Can I have some tips on how to create a more weather-proof cover? Does anyone else have a Go Up and what do they do? Many thanks!

[Cat tails]

I have the heavy duty cover for the Cube which fits quite well over the front part of the run. It's about 90 cm by 2,2 m so you only have a gap of about 20 cm on one bottom side and about 5 cm on the front of the run not covered.

But I only use it when it's very heavy rain or rain for a very long period. Because it is quite dark for the chickens.

I spotted the new clear plastic covers on the Omlet website, but haven't seen one for the 1m run of the cube. The 2m one would be far to big.

Maybe it is something in the making, but then it would be ideal I think for your Go Up.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I used corrugated plastic sheets on my eglu run, but it wasn't a Go, so not sure if it would work on that.

 

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[lovelyelm]

The corrugated sheets look idea. And they are just secured with the elasticated ties? I'll pop down to Wikes and see if I can get some... Thank you!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Yes, bungee cords. I have a really windy garden so needed something more substantial than plastic sheets which always ripped in the end.