Brushing the Coop......

With almost t-shirt weather yesterday the previous fallen snow has melted away quite a bit and gave us opportunity to do some late winter-proofing.  We picked up two discarded Christmas Trees on our travels today and used them to brush our chicken coop.  This will help keep the draft down under the coop, especially when the brush gets some snow on it.  It will make a lovely wind barrier.  When I lived in an old farm house it made a world of difference when we put the brush around the basement walls in the winter time.  When that brush was taken away, if we had a blast of cold weather, you felt the difference!  Bagged leaves work as well and can be easier to find than brush for most people.  But, today we took the opportunity to grab up a couple of trees, I cut the brush off the trunk and my Son helped me place it around the coop........

Beautiful, heavy fir brush.....

We will use the trunks for fire wood......

The chickens will be warm and cozy with the heat lamps blazing and the brush blocking the cold bitter winds that are coming our way the next few days.  We got our work done just in time for another snow storm tomorrow.

'til next time!