The box below is actually my second grazing box - the first is a mud mixer pan that someone threw out. You can just see the corner of it with wire closet shelving as the cover. This frame below was a sand bathing box that turned to hard pack with repeated rain and sun. So I dumped it and put it on a soil pad and seeded with wheat grass.
A few days ago we added 5-6” wood chip bark to bring the ground level up - the land is too low and floods and takes forever to drain due on high water table. We simply filled the area around the box with the wood mulch.
The downside of all this mulch was it covered all the grass in the run. I wanted more grass available than 1 large box and 1 small box.
So I decided to dig down in an area to the ground, fill the hole with soil, seed it and lay a scrap piece of framed wire over it to prevent digging by the chickens.
Now I wait to see if it works and the wheat grass grows!
A few days ago we added 5-6” wood chip bark to bring the ground level up - the land is too low and floods and takes forever to drain due on high water table. We simply filled the area around the box with the wood mulch.
The downside of all this mulch was it covered all the grass in the run. I wanted more grass available than 1 large box and 1 small box.
So I decided to dig down in an area to the ground, fill the hole with soil, seed it and lay a scrap piece of framed wire over it to prevent digging by the chickens.
Now I wait to see if it works and the wheat grass grows!
