Rain/water logged!!

[animalgrl]

turn your area over were the coop is and add gravel to the clay it opens the clay up and lets water run thro with no problems or add a drainage pipe in the coop area

I'll keep that in mind for the future. I rent, so trying not to do anything too disruptive.

 

[animalgrl]

My soil here has a LOT of clay in it too so its just sludge.
Not sure where i can get pine needles from around here....atleast, find enough to cover the run.
I can definitely try the straw idea though, thankyou. Would sugar cane mulch be good enough though?

Also, i need to be careful that grass is capable of growing back at some stage as we rent this property and if we ever leave they want the yard left as we found it...haha even though they agreed to let us have chickens

I also rent, so am trying not to do anything too disruptive. The straw is working well for me, so far, but as I said, the tarp is keeping everything other than the edges of my run dry. I'm not familiar with sugar cane mulch. I used pine shavings in the summer, but I feel like they just become a wet soggy mess in the rain. I thought about wood chips or wood mulch, but worry about the chickens eating them and getting an impacted crop. How big would the wood chips need to be?