Concrete run not helping in the rain!!!!!!

[We-love-chickens]

Hi guys. I'm wondering if anyone can help me at all.
I have moved my chicken run onto a concrete base at the back of the garden for winter as we generally get quite wet winters where we are.

I dont have anything over the concrete and the roof is covered but we still get really wet soggy dirty floors because the rain gets in at the front which is the only side that is open.

Does anyone know what I can do to help stop this.

Thank you.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

Pictures could help so we can see what your dealing with. I have mine on a concrete slab that was once a dog pen and I have 2X6 boards along the bottom that frames in the deep litter method I have going on on top of the concrete.

 

[We-love-chickens]

OK thanks il try to get a decent picture tomorrow. So do you mean you have a concrete base and on top you have filled it with something.
If so what do you use and how often do you clean out. How is it for drainage as I'd have thought whatever ran through would just collect on the concrete

Thanks.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Put a sill in at the entrance to keep the water out, slope the surrounding ground away from the run. Your chicks will hop right over it, won't affect them at all - but you will basically be placing the equivalent of permanent sandbags at the door to slow/stop flooding.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

I don't have a good picture but I can take one later , this one you can see if you look along the bottom of the fence a board that runs around the bottom that the fencing is nailed to. It holds my deep litter in which is wood chips and old card board boxes. My cement slab is not level, it's at a slight incline so the water runs off the back side of the pen into a trench. My pens do get messy because we have allot of rain living on the Atlantic coast so when it does, I just get cardboard boxes and take all the tape and staples off and flatten them out lining the floor or where it's the most gross and toss some more fresh chips on top. The chickens scratch and peck until the cardboard gets turned to mulch with the chips. I clean it out maybe once or twice a year. Spring and fall and put the old bedding in low spots on my property or around plants for fertilizer. Best to clean it out when dry because the smell ignites my gag reflex. My run is only covered half way. My whole set up is really a chicken shanty town made from a old outdoor dog kennel and embarrassing to post pictures of compared to most of the ones I've seen on this site.