Friday, August 10, 2012

Houston, There's a Problem!


It rained a lot last night and today.  (A blessing!)
But it's the first substantial rain we've had since I put the tarp on top of the chicken run!
This was already a lot of water up there.



And very heavy as you can see, it's starting to bow the top of the run!!


The ground was already soaked so I poked a couple holes in the tarp to get the water down.


There's a stream of water going into that bucket.


I took off one of the tarps.  It can't get any wetter in there!
Now I've got to come up with a better plan or just leave it open.
These tarps wouldn't work in the winter anyway with heavy snow laying on them.
Any ideas people????

Shirley

3 comments:

  1. You should try something on an angle, so that water and snow can slide off. :) Maybe at and angle and solid plastic instead of tarp? :)

    Hugs,

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  2. As long as the girls have shelter (which they do) I'd be mighty tempted to leave it open, Shirley...:)JP

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  3. I can only suggest rigging up an apex framework that way when the tarp is on water/snow will run off...
    Rose H

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