wing clipping... now what?

[Truevalentine]

My chickens were constantly getting out of their run, decimating my lawn and leaving droppings where the daycare kids play so I decided I had to do something about it. First I blocked off the crawl space that they preferred to go through, that slowed them down, but they were still flying over.
So last night we chased all four down to clip wings... silly me, I listened to my dad and went ahead and clipped both wings "just in case" even though I knew I'd read to clip only one. Now one of my girls has flown over the fence TWICE today!
I really want to reseed my lawn and I'm tired of doing a major yard patrol and having the kids play in rainboots every day. How can I keep the chickens in THEIR area????

 

[Judy]

Mine will flap/climb over a 6' fence if they really want out. Clipping wings would not stop that. Covering the run is the only solution I can see. Since they already want out, though, I'd suggest making it bigger as well to avoid problems.