Floor in Waterfowl Run

[Evadig]

I am trying to decide what would make the best floor for my waterfowl run. None of the waterfowl material I read from the library or online really addresses this question, so I thought I’d ask how everyone else does it? Thank you for your input!

 

[Goosebaby]

I have dirt floors underneath shavings in my goose bed time kennels but I would like to pour cement for sanitation but they‘ll require a lot of bedding as the ground is too hard.

As for their run, mine free roam with supervision so I don’t have much input there. A lot of people use sand in aviaries and chicken/goose runs for easy cleanup.
I don’t advise using mulch because it breeds mold.

 

[Evadig]

I have dirt floors underneath shavings in my goose bed time kennels but I would like to pour cement for sanitation but they‘ll require a lot of bedding as the ground is too hard.

As for their run, mine free roam with supervision so I don’t have much input there. A lot of people use sand in aviaries and chicken/goose runs for easy cleanup.
I don’t advise using mulch because it breeds mold.

I used to have a cement floor for my ducks, it was so easy to clean! But I am told it's bad for their feet. My geese get to free range too but when I'm gone to the store or church I want them safely confined in a run - a fox came in my yard a few days ago

 

[JRies]

My 2 barns are concrete I epoxied the floors. After breeding season build up wood shavings but thats when the geese eat and drink outside. By fall it about 4 inch's thick. once they get water in the barn in the winter its allot of spot dig outs. But thats the geese who's mess is not as bad.
Tried Sand in the duck run (there shed has a wood floor with shavings). Really like the sand scrape it once a week, when I did a full dig out this spring I only lost about a inch of sand. I did put it in 8 inches deep for drainage. The dump truck load of sand was $400 so that's about $50 a year.
Wood shavings have got really expensive. But they still seem to work the best on my concrete.

 

[Jenbirdee]

For the last seven years every time there is a muddy area I dump, a bag of sand and a bag of gravel on it. At this point there are some areas where the sand gravel mix has hardened nicely