Winterizing chicken coop

Winter is around the corner; some people get excited about that and some people dread it. I've discovered that the only thing we get is a lot of work to do in the fall. We've spent hours upon hours cleaning up the gardens and still have hours and hours of work ahead of us. We can spend a whole day and it looks like we've barely made a dent. Going to have to call the the grandparents to watch Lily next weekend so that we can make a concerted effort on them.

Today we got started on winterizing the chicken coop. Here's our before picture.

We got the old ford loaded up with 10 bales of straw (all my little ranger will hold). That should be enough to make a nice little wind break wall along one side of the coop. We're going to get another truck load tomorrow so that we have enough for the two sides in the above photo. There is already a fence along the far side so right now I'm not too worried about wind coming in from over there. The ladies are very cold tolerant, but wind is another story altogether.

Here is a pic of the truckload of straw. Just as we were getting ready to leave the farm where we picked up the straw a big gust of wind blew a bunch of straw through my open passenger window. I think there ended up being as much straw inside as there was in the back.

Here's a picture of the ladies hanging out. I'll get some more shouts of the coop up tomorrow after I get the rest of the straw home and the wind break set up. Also going to make a peaked roof out a tarp to keep the snow out of the coop as much as possible. The work never ends lol.