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SkyAJK said:
I am thinking about this sand dune in your garden.

Mostly soil in my chicken runs and I put out load of sugar cane mulch and trimming of my mango trees, load of that. It was a continuous prolong rain so non of that mulch matter at all.

Clay is mostly under those top soil, so it does not drain well at all. We have a few dry or most a week of sunshine, then come the prolong rain and this has been a repeated thing since late last year, whatever goodness in the clay or soil in my garden, non is left now.

Will the muddiness reduce by adding sand?
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Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.
 
R2elk said:
Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.
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Putting down a layer of pea gravel with a drain pipe under the top soil will improve drainage.
 
R2elk said:
Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.
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I did put down a lot of sugar cane mulch and trimming. The prolong rain just can not fix it. I am expecting this sort of excessive weather will continue.

Evadig said:
I think you would need a lot of sand. Where I live there the soil is all clay, and it gets very muddy when it rains. I have tried adding sand in certain areas (my duck pond, for instance), but it didn't help much.
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How do you ease the mud?

A small area in my chicken run have pavers, and they got quite slippery due to the slimy mold grown on them. The old timber fence I put down so that I can walk into the chicken run without stepping on mud is good, it gives me a little space to walk on and my chickens standing on them a lot. But I can not cover the whole of the chicken runs with it. Those I put down just temporary.
 
SkyAJK said:
How do you ease the mud?

A small area in my chicken run have pavers, and they got quite slippery due to the slimy mold grown on them. The old timber fence I put down so that I can walk into the chicken run without stepping on mud is good, it gives me a little space to walk on and my chickens standing on them a lot. But I can not cover the whole of the chicken runs with it. Those I put down just temporary.
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I put down lots of straw, pine shavings, and horse pellets (that turn to sawdust). Like every few hours would need another layer of bedding, because the previous layer got soaked through. When the weather finally dries, I rake it out, let it dry, and store it away to reuse. Do you have a roof on your run?
 
Evadig said:
I put down lots of straw, pine shavings, and horse pellets (that turn to sawdust). Like every few hours would need another layer of bedding, because the previous layer got soaked through. When the weather finally dries, I rake it out, let it dry, and store it away to reuse. Do you have a roof on your run?
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I am thinking about straw, pine shavings and horse pellets. This is very expensive stuff. A bale of straw cost around $23 - $25 and pine shaving cost even more. I will have a look at horse pellets.

A bale of sugar cane cost around $12. I have 3 chicken runs.

1/3 of the chicken run is under cover, the rest has mesh to stop wild birds from entering the chicken area. This is the kind of mesh that to put on fruit tree.

If I cover the whole of the chicken run it still would not make any different because the rain is flashing into the run in all direction.
 
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