Storm ideas and poultry

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Just wonder what everyone is doing about the storm tonight, and hoping you all manage to keep your birds safe. I've moved one or two of my favourite birds indoors in cat boxes but am at a bit of a loss to know what to do about the houses apart from moving them all to more protected bits of the garden. I've had an Eglu cube take off before in the wind. Did anyone have any inspired ideas?
 
My lot got bombarded by horizontal apple bombs from the tree last night, but all alive and ark not damaged today. The only casualty was me, who spent the night fretting about them and going outside to check nothing had fallen on them (only to get an apple bomb on my arm which now has huge bruise).
Neighbours accross the rail line not so lucky and a branch came down on their girls. They where running up and down the gardens and railtrack at 2am trying to gather the poor frightened things up by torchlight.
 
Glad you and your birds survived! I spent ages boxing mine up in the kitchen, but nothing happened to the houses.
 
Sometimes it can be more stressful to put them in the boxes than leave them put in their houses. Maybe try pegging the houses down next time with rope, or piling bricks on the roof?
My lot have been battered in their house by fireworks and gales and come out fine, but when I put them in a box overnight a couple of years ago, they took days to settle afterwards.
 
I removed the plastic patio table (a perch / sun shade, & handy when I'm cleaning) from the run, took down the hanging chains & put the feeder & drinker on the ground and shut the greenhouse so that the wind couldn't blow it down. The girls were unimpressed this morning to find the greenhouse out of bounds, but were otherwise OK, as were the run & greenhouse. Whether they'll lay tomorrow & over the next few days, only time will tell; I doubt if they got much sleep last night!

Hope everyone else's birds are OK too.
 
It got rather wet and a bit windy here, didn't really do anything special just ensured everything was battened down. I wasn't as bad as the forecast though.

One year however, one of our large henhouses turned upside down completely, we were out in pitch black trying to sort it out, the hens were all fine, perched the wrong way up but perfectly happy and no adverse affects from their adventure! :D
 
Foxy. I've got a mental image of your girls perching on their combs now :D
I suspect that's not what you meant though...
 
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