Fixed Runs: Unhealthy or acceptable?

[All about the EGG]

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I have the Lowes playhouse and a 4x8 run. Mine is dirt, and it sometimes gets tilled. I have 5 sexlinks. We do move the run around during the day after they have laid their eggs.

 

[cyrixlord]

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I live in Everett area and also have a fixed run and basically do what you do with the chickens by FR them. of course only when im out working in the yard now on the weekends is when they get to RF.

why not try what I did in your fixed run
http://tamanaka.com/MainGallery/ImageAndCaption.aspx?ImgID=265
its a clear corrugated plastic roof attached to a gutter that drains into a waterer

i like your idea of letting the chickens get to the leaves of cut branches before chipping htem. it makes it easy on the chipper. i put the chipped branches back into the coop and put it in to the composter every few months.

 

[winekntrychicks]

We have a fixed run/coop. Each night when I tuck the girls in I scoop the poop and put in a bucket for weekend transportation to the manure pile in the lower field. I was going for the deep litter method in the coop and yearly clean out, but have since changed my mind to clean out every 4 months or so. I plan on starting a vermiculture station for poo. This spring I would like to build a second run for rotating the flock.