Chicken run is a Mud pit

[Emma_Thomas]

Our chicken run has been a mud pit for days. We had major storms for a week straight. It’s so wet and muddy, and we have a roof on top so it’s shaded pretty much the entire day. We live in northern MN so our weather is not going to be getting very warm anymore, so it definitely will not dry out. We really need to fix this immediately, the run smells horrendous and the chickens can’t dust bath anymore and they’re getting covered in mud.
Any solutions to this? We wanted to add sand in but I’ve been reading that we shouldn’t add sand to a wet run, so we’re at a loss on how to dry up our run.
Please help! Thank you!

Hi All, I know this post is really old but I have been having the same issue. I have found a solution. I put a layer of horse stable matting down. It's soft on the chickens feet and all I have to do is hose it off once a week. It seems to be working great!