What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[emerald]

We have loads of paving slabs so was thinking the wire mesh with double layer of paving slabs on top - would that keep rats at bay?

[sage]

My WIR is on a single layer of paving slab & I have never had a problem with rats getting into the run. I get field mice coming in on an evening through the mesh & the girls just sit watching them.

 

Sage

[emerald]

My WIR is on a single layer of paving slab & I have never had a problem with rats getting into the run. I get field mice coming in on an evening through the mesh & the girls just sit watching them.

 

Sage

 

Thanks that's good to know

 

Did you do anything to the ground before putting the slabs down. I've got some sand to put down.

[sage]

Just sand/cement mix with slabs on top. the paved area is 12ft x8ft with a 9x6ft run on top.

 

Sage

[Leicester_H]

We've just had some slabs laid for our walkin run.

They put down a base and compacted it, before putting slabs down.

H

[atsw]

I created an area of compacted soil, then added a layer (3" to 4") of soft sand, then laid the slabs on that. That was in 2009, it's still flat and level today and we've never had rats get into the run (we have had them try this year for the first time though, we think because it was so cold over winter and they were desperate for food). They have been 'dealt with' now and are no longer a problem.

 

 

 

You can see the whole construction process by clicking here.

 

Andrew

[emerald]

I created an area of compacted soil, then added a layer (3" to 4") of soft sand, then laid the slabs on that. That was in 2009, it's still flat and level today and we've never had rats get into the run (we have had them try this year for the first time though, we think because it was so cold over winter and they were desperate for food). They have been 'dealt with' now and are no longer a problem.

 

 

 

You can see the whole construction process by clicking here.

 

Andrew

http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=4&p=1248739#

 

Brilliant thanks

 

That was really useful and makes me realise that the slab part is much more straightforward then I thought