A day or two later we went to check out the roof. Besides not being square, it wasn't too shabby...I mean it's for a chicken run for crying out loud. It definitely looked a lot better than the tarp! P put some final screws in, and we both agreed we would need a few more cross pieces between our rafters to support future snow fall...
Next on our grand list was the gutter install. My grand plan in my little head is to install a gutter at the end of the roof, and then have it run into two rainbarrels. Then we can attach a hose to the rainbarrels and be able to provide water for the chickens without hauling water in buckets.... Green, earth friendly, and ingenious I know...
So we installed the 24 foot long gutter, (a little too low on the fascia I think,) and went to install the end caps but they were the wrong size. So we moved on to other projects in and around the barn. About an hour later, it started to rain...
I ran over to the chicken run to see how the new roof and gutters were working...or not. We watched the rain shoot off the roof into the gutter, (and sometimes missing it completely.) I felt like a kid watching their science fair project for the first time to see if it would work or not. A few minutes later, water began trickling out of the two gutter ends. SUCCESS!!! We high fived eachother. And watched our creation for a few more minutes before going in for the day.
We went down to the coop the following day and to our dismay, the sides on the inside of the run were pretty wet. The rain from the gutters was running into the coop. So we took our two buckets and put them at the ends to use as mini rain barrels until ours come in. FYI...a 5 gallon bucket fills up really quickly when used to collect rain water run off....
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