Solitary chicken - need advice

[Henergy]

Well it seems a mild but wet winter is with us. My eglu run isn't too bad, but the grass I walk over to get to the run has totally gone and it is now a muddy quagmire. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could put down ? It is too long a path to put woodchip down - anyone found any good solutions please ?

[mollyripkim]

We laid stepping stones in the summer that you can mow over and it has helped but even so with the dogs etc and so much rain it just doesn't seem to be draining enough and is starting to look a mess.

[Beantree]

I've seen plastic tracking for that purpose Henergy. It's made in interlocking sections like a honeycomb so grass can still get some light through, then you take it up in Spring. Thought about buying some for our enclosure but ended up using bark, which the chickens scattered all over the place! It was expensive anyway.

[doctors girls]

sorry for the large photos but this what i did with mine

 

 

 

 

i used 3 tonne of crusher,4 tonne of 20mm gravel and a few rolls weed control and some hard graft

 

[Henergy]

Wow that must have been hard work - I think I need to get my thinking cap on for a longer term solution next year. I've just ordered loads of woodchip as a temp solution until the spring.

Thank you for sharing your photos - I love looking at other people's set ups.

[eve]

My run is a mud bath winds have blown cover off wir.after xmas must get a new roof of some sort for them and extra bark.