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Thanks, he's really quite a nice bird too.
I was reading about your snow and mud troubles in your run. My run is covered on three sides but with that last wind/snow storm our run got snowed into too! I actually had to shovel out the run and then mix up what was left of it with the sand in the run so the chickens would come out of the coop! Princesses!
I use sand in my run and it's in a very muddy area of our yard but it keeps the run nice and DRY. Think about it, it's great in terms of sanitation too.
Part of the problem is it's brand new. We just finished it in September. We had to bring in a Backhoe to level the ground were the shed and run are, so it's all freshly dug up dirt. We did plant grass seed around the outside of the run and we put 6 bags of sand
in the run. But we still
had more mud than I would like'''but now it's more snow!!!! I had a bale of straw that I spread around and that helped. But now if I shovel the snow out....all the straw comes out too
I just didn't think that it would snow
into a covered run so much! I don't want to put tarps around it and make it too noticable to the neighbors. I'm within ordinances, but I'd still like to be under the radar if possible. The neightbors across the street own a landscape company and he said he'll get me a load of sand in the spring. But today spring seems kinda far off
....