My Dirt Chicken Run

[Karen711]

Hey everyone,
Just need a few ideas hopefully. My chicken run is dirt at one end then they can walk under the coop to the other end
which is feed and water and I have put down rock to help keep it cleaner. The dirt end is so boring for them as far as
foraging goes. I hang things for them to eat sometime, and throw in stuff from the garden, kale, lettuce ect, give them
sunflower seeds to scratch around for but it's just not enough. I can't let them out in the yard as we have coyotes and
eagles that could get them. I have a perch in there for them ( I only have 7) but just feel bad when I see them scratching
around in the dirt and nothing is there for them

Any ideas greatly appreciated, Thanks

 

[Whittni]

Have you thought about a chicken swing? Apparently chickens really like em! (Piece of wood and two ropes) you could also try composting to make the soil in the run richer.

 

[Adalida]

Can you give them leaf litter? They love it. Rake up a big huge pile of leaves, pine needles, bark, straw, grass clippings, etc, and let them pick around in it.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Do you use shavings in your coop? When you clean it out, dump it on the dirt area... toss some scratch into it and that'll keep them occupied for a while... and it will compost naturally into the soil...