Sand on top of pavers?

[Chickamams]

Too funny! the only thing I don’t like about it is it’s not flat at end to scrape but other than that I love it. I tried making my own with hardware cloth but I’m not too handy and it was a hot mess. Happy I splurged in something for my back for once

 

[dawg53]

We've had hard rains daily prior and after the passage of tropical storm Christobal making landfall over Louisiana.
Yesterday was the worst of the hard rains, non stop all day with thunderstorms thrown in. Our front yard turned into a lake with streams in the back yard.
The stalled cold front finally moved south of us and it's nice and cool outside, and hopefully no more rain for awhile.

One chicken pen was 100% flooded, two others were 50% flooded. The carport pen didnt flood.
The sand in each of the pens did its job and sucked up the water. If it had been dirt, it would have been a stinking muddy mess and wouldve taken a long time to dry. Not with sand, think beach!
The coops and chickens are safe, high and dry.
The sand in our soil sucked up the standing water in the yard. There's only a few areas with standing water near the property lines.
Sand is the way to go in chicken pens.

 

[writerskramp]

I live in Northern California where it only rains in the winters (if we're lucky!) and the summers are dry and hot. I am building a coop for my first flock, and from my research I would like to use sand in my run instead of wood shavings. I will be housing 3 hens in a 4 x 4 hen house with an attached 4 x 8 run. I'm confused about how to set up the foundation for the coop and run, however. I have some leftover pavers from my pool deck that I thought I could put under the entire coop and run. They are large, thick, heavy Belgard-brand pavers that a predator wouldn't be able to move. Starting at ground level,would I put the pavers down first, pea gravel on top of the pavers, and then several inches of sand on top of the gravel? Given that approach, what does one to do to keep the sand contained inside of the run? I'm assuming I would need to put boards or something around the bottom few inches of the run to keep the sand from spilling out of the hardware cloth. And on the topic of hardware cloth, with the heavy pavers on the bottom of the coop would I still need to put a hardware cloth apron under the pavers? I live near vineyards so want to secure my coop against rats, racoons and other predators that frequent my area. I truly appreciate the wealth of information from this forum and any help would be much appreciated!

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