Wire Skirt Help

[ctychix]

My chicks are burrowing under the sill of the aviary run of the coop, has anyone run a wire skirt on the inside to prevent this? Any suggestions to prevent the digging along the sides?

 

[GardeNerd]

My neighbor didn't do a skirt, but she put hardware cloth under the run and then covered it with a few inches of soil. I know many folks here at BYC like skirts to keep predators out, but they put them on the outside.

If you just need a temp fix, how about bricks around the edges?

 

[LynneP]

This is a page showing how we buried the cloth

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=7693-LynnePs_Run

Another possibility is to make a floor of hardware cloth and cover it with earth.