Buried hardware cloth under the whole run?

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I would advise against hardware cloth, or any wire mesh, buried under a run.

Eventually it will rust and break up, and chickens can dig amazingly deep holes.....
......would be worried about injured chicken feet and the impossibility of removing it when necessary.

I did put HC on the plywood floor of the coop (walls and ceiling too) to prevent anything from chewing in thru the wood,
but put heavy vinyl flooring over it to protect both chicken feet from the HC and the HC from any spilled water in the coop.

Thank you!

Injury was my first thought when someone mentioned the chickens digging.

Good thought on the HC on the coop walls. Would only need to do one wall, two other walls will be within the run, and the fourth will be shared with our metal pole building (shop and tractor storage) since we are building the coop under the unused overhang on the back of the shop. Coop floor will be concrete.

Again thanks, BYC has been a wonderful resource, I really appreciate the knowledge and thoughts of the experienced Chicken People!