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Do you have the apron around outside?

That’s good to know:).

That was our concern....hmmm so do you think if it’s down 6” under dirt it would be fine? I wouldn’t want it just loosely laying in there bc of chickens hurting themselves plus we will walk in there some.

That is great to know!!! Thanks!! We are using 1/2” hardware cloth but it’s worth it to spend the extra to know our chickens are safe. I didn’t want our coop on a permanent foundation in case we move so it’s level but I see holes and spots things could crawl under. We are for sure doing the...

That sounds like a Great plan!!!!!;). This spot of ours water run off the mountain can get bad once a year. Thankfully it’s not tons but it’s something we discussed before building but only place we wanted the coop. Sounds like the key is to building up like you said on top of the cloth. I...

We are planning to let our chickens forage past the run but if we leave to go to town it’d be great to lock them in run & leave their coop door open so they can run in and out in case storm comes etc.

Thanks for the tip! We live on a mountain so we see deer, black bear, tons of squirrels, and I am concerned of coyotes and foxes trying to get in the chicken run. I wonder if I can do deep litter method in the run? I read somewhere you can actually put leaves & the chickens will compost...

Hi there, building our coop right now. (Just posted on coop thread). We are trying to decide if the run should have hardware cloth on floor then put 6” of dirt etc on top or just the apron on outside of run? Thanks bunches!