Need help with water flow

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Well if there is any good out of rain day after day then 7" snow then more rain...I guess it's that I'm getting a chance to look at the crazy water flow from standing on the deck overlooking the raised garden bed, run and coop!
I'm not very good at this type stuff but yall are!
Can yall take a look at these 2 pics I just took...ground is most definitely saturated. Unsure if ground got to freeze completely or not...it was just last Sunday when I got out there and dug the trench to the right of the coop...then quickly turned to sleet and snow til yesterday when the thunderstorms hit.
If you zoom in on pics you can see the water on surface...of course it looks as if it begins to the left of the trench I dug but then ends up flowing into trench middle ways down.
Should I dig there beside the garden and follow that path then connect it up to the trench?
And I'm not sure what to do on the run side...I have a garden hose laid out where I had planned to dig but it seems way off from where the water is showing up.
I sure do appreciate yall helping me figure this out. I know it comes naturally to so many of yall...but not me.

 

[mowin]

Difficult to tell from your pictures, but possibly a french drain at a higher point above the coop to stop run off from flowing into the lawn.

Is the area the coop is in and where you dug the trench in a low lying area or in a dip of the lawn?

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Difficult to tell from your pictures, but possibly a french drain at a higher point above the coop to stop run off from flowing into the lawn.

Is the area the coop is in and where you dug the trench in a low lying area or in a dip of the lawn?

This article shows pics from down at the ground level...the run and coop are on a slope with the coop side being few inches lower than the left run side.

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[mowin]

Great job on the coop and article.
In your first pic, I'm assuming you're taking the pic from the house? And the ground slopes from the house to the coop/ run?

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Great job on the coop and article.
In your first pic, I'm assuming you're taking the pic from the house? And the ground slopes from the house to the coop/ run?

Thank u...yes I'm standing on top of the deck overlooking the raised garden, coop and run area.
The slope goes from the house to the raised bed then on down the hillside.

 

[mowin]

Thank u...yes I'm standing on top of the deck overlooking the raised garden, coop and run area.
The slope goes from the house to the raised bed then on down the hillside.

Are you possibly getting run off from the house roof going into the coop run area? Any gutters?

 

[3KillerBs]

The existing trench looks like it's doing it's job.

Put on your boots and raincoat and go out to move the garden hose that's marking the proposed ditch to where the water actually is and how you can lead it downslope.

There's no better time to plan altering waterflow than when the water is actually flowing.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Are you possibly getting run off from the house roof going into the coop run area? Any gutters?

Don't believe so we have gutters on the house.
The front of the house in the yard is like a slight slope so then the house then the garden and coop/run area has more of a slope.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

The existing trench looks like it's doing it's job.

Put on your boots and raincoat and go out to move the garden hose that's marking the proposed ditch to where the water actually is and how you can lead it downslope.

There's no better time to plan altering waterflow than when the water is actually flowing.

Yeah I'm just trying to get a plan before I get out there lol.
I've marked up the pics I just took...is this what yall would suggest?
I'm guessing the run side is definitely gonna need a French drain to let that pooling at run door drain.
But where would ya do the trench on that side?

 

[mowin]

Unfortunately the ground is saturated, and it can't hold any more. Without seeing it in person, I'm thinking a french drain along the upper side of the coop and run would help with a lot of your water issues in the run/coop area.