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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Jullienne on December 23, 2016, 02:10:33 pm

Title: Strong winds and storms across the UK
Post by: Jullienne on December 23, 2016, 02:10:33 pm

just had to go and get the chickens houses and runs right up against the house to protect from the strong winds due. Remember anyone who has chicken sheds/runs out in the open to be careful over the next day or 2 as winds up to 50 miles an hr are hitting the UK. I think its storm barbara?

Title: Re: Strong winds and storms across the UK
Post by: ColinS on December 23, 2016, 03:56:56 pm

This is a good site for watching the current wind-speeds being reported over the UK:-

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ (http://www.xcweather.co.uk/)

Title: Re: Strong winds and storms across the UK
Post by: Fleecewife on December 23, 2016, 04:15:00 pm

I think the winds in the NW are a teentsy bit faster than 50.  They seem to keep everything battened down up there all the time, as do we, as high winds are expected from time to time.


Here in the south of Scotland winds were low 50s this morning, now barely 40, but it's decidedly wet.  One of our sons drove right down the east coast to Kent this morning and said traffic and weather were both light.


It's all the makeshift poultry run covers people have had to put up hurriedly which seem the most vulnerable to me.

Title: Re: Strong winds and storms across the UK
Post by: Womble on December 23, 2016, 04:22:51 pm

Aha!  That's why I spent most of last night weighing all our tarps down with several inches of rain!  :idea:

Title: Re: Strong winds and storms across the UK
Post by: Dans on December 23, 2016, 06:21:42 pm

I thought I'd go out and check the tarps, make sure they had stayed on. See my Cockerel chicks running around. Did a door swing open? No the wooden roof had blown clean off and was on the other side of the fence.

The tarp was perfectly fine though!

Now safely in the polytunnel.

Dans