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I've been doing great except the mud problems. Once the rainy season stops my sand dries out and the girls love it. So I looked at my bag of pine shavings from tractor supply. It says they'll cover 8 cubic feet. So assuming that's true and my math is decent my 170 square foot coop could be...

We have tons of pine needles but u seem to remember trying to use them to soak up some of the mud last year and it didn't seem to help. I only did it in a small area so maybe that's why. I'm thinking of getting 5 or 6 bags of shavings I use bedding in my brooders and covering that with leaves...

So really I could take my wheel barrel into the woods and just take loads of whatever I can haul to the run? Do you sift anything? Or just take sticks leaves and needles and dump them all in the run? Seems too easy to fix the mud problem....

I was looking at the deep litter method after reading talkalittle's post. It sounds like most people put down 5-6 inches of wood shavings and add grass and leaves on top? I can't really find what people put after the wood shavings. Also price may be an issue to me. I don't know of anywhere to...

That's my problem as well. I can't find anything to combat the mud. My thought was was to have Gravel down. I didn't think of the Bumble foot. There would be a area covered with no rocks but most would be Gravel still

Good to know. I was letting mine fee range until recently. A predator has showed up and I haven't neutralized it yet... Anyone have Gravel stories?

I'm debating using small Gravel to fill the run with and would like some feedback from experience. I've read through the forums and it seems like everyone who I've read is talking about right after they filled the run with Gravel. Does anyone have any experience a few years into Gravel use? And...