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Nice coop! What areyou going to do to the ground in the run? When I could no longer move my chicken tractor due to the weather, I piled woodchip about 6" deep and set the run on top of that. I thought it would keep clean, but the darn hens scratch everything up so much, that it did not take long for it to become a muddy mess. Even though the run was covered, enough water ran through with the squalls that come through up here that it was just days before everything was mud. Now the new covered run is where my kids had their old play-set. It is also on about 5" of woodchip, but under the woodchip is a water permeable weed barrier, and even with all their digging and
scratching, the hens so far have not managed to tear through it. We did woodchip only so we would not need to go out and buy anything. When this gets nasty (and I have piles of wood chip to use), I will replace it with sand - I'm a bit worried about getting mites in the woodchip.
Thank you!There was a tme when we actually had more grass in the back yard, then we got our active golden retriever and the constant play and ball chasing wore the grass away. No matter, I know the chickens would gave made short work of any grass left anyway. From what ive been reading so far, I'm leaning toward all purpose sand in the run hopefully to keep it a little cleaner. Had orinally thought straw, but I don't think that will be enough in that area.
