Chicken coop is very muddy! help please UPDATE

I've given up with the mud/bark/stone ideas as we had a flood here and everything is just knee deep in clay and stink. I've moved the coop up onto the patio so they will have to make do with concrete slab underfoot, but I guess it will be easy to hose down and keep clean and dry as everything else just turns to mush here.
 
You'll need the coarsest, most natural sand possible so it can drain. I think beach sand may work if it fits that description. We desperately need to de-muck, gravel and sand my run. There is so much rain here now that my run is like poop soup. It's so mucky and gross that I was crying this morning. The rain is so bad that it has been soaking the whole run even though I have a roof over almost half of it and a tarp over part of the other half.
 
I am having the same problem, it has been raining in Oregon forever it seems. Nothing but clay and mud, and no end to the rain in sight. Thank you all for your ideas and solutions.I will be heading out today to get some gravel and sand, fingers crossed that it works.
 
I am having the same problem, it has been raining in Oregon forever it seems. Nothing but clay and mud, and no end to the rain in sight. Thank you all for your ideas and solutions.I will be heading out today to get some gravel and sand, fingers crossed that it works.

How about getting some hay bales for the birds to climb on?
Best,
Karen
 
Read through this thread with interest, living in Hawaii (Big Island) we get ALOT of rain, in fact it's been pouring the past few days with more to come
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The ground in my Run/Coop is clay, I got 3/8" gravel under the 2x4 base/perimeter, tossed some playsand under the "nest box"/dog house thinking they'd dust bath in it & have pine shavings in a corner under the roost. Above their "nest box"/dog house is a roost with a poop board under (idea from a BYC member, great idea, easy clean). The whole enclosure is 8x12 wrapped in shower curtain on EMT rods
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It's been in operation since January this year and been very happy with it. I started off with 4 pullets that would free range during the day but now have 5 that aren't allowed to free range yet (I didn't raise them so they're in training).

Idea may not work for you all with the Winter cold but maybe you can work the shower curtain idea for covered runs?


 
Hi there is have just saved 2 chickens from being slaughtered I have a 6ft buy 3ft but I am having trouble with the run getting muddy I am going to higher the coop up 4 ins and going to
Put 2 ins of sand is this OK.
Thanks Sylvia
 

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