I Found The BEST CHICKEN Run Floor Material...FOR US 

Once a year, you clean out the run completely and make a compost pile. Make an area that is the compost area and fence it in if you want to, but let your chickens have access to it. Throw all the chicken poo from when you clean out the coop in that pile, all the food scraps, all the yard waste. Your chickens will make you a very nice compost. You don’t have to do anything but add to it now and then they do all the work.

Here's an idea for the floor in your chicken coop. Make a square wooden frame out of 2"x4", or even 2"x6", that measure maybe 2'x2', and nail or screw slats of 2"x4" with spaces in between of 1", to create an elevated grate floor of sorts, and put seeds under that grate floor, so that when they germinate, the roots will get fertilized by the chicken manure, the grass will grow throw and in between the wooden slats, and the chicken will have access to fresh green grass, but will not be able to scratch and destroy the root system. The manure will fall through the gaps in the wooden slats, and will decompose as they feed the grass. Eventually (maybe a year or two) the volume of matter (composted manure and grass vegetation) will build and you might have to raise those wooden frames to clean beneath by scrapping it, taking it out somewhere, and replanting new seeds under the wooden frames, and again, you might not have to do it at all, if the frames are built out of 2"x6", which will give you about 5.5" of height for manure and plant matter to accumulate beneath before it starts to reach the bottom of the floor slats. Let me know what you think about that idea.

Add some raw biochar (char) to reduce odors. The resulting combination of inoculated biochar, chicken poop (nitrogen), and woodchips (carbon) makes top-shelf compost.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and what works for you and what doesn't. 😊

This is what I've been doing since the start. Woodchips break down with the chicken poop and make an excellent medium to your compost pile to further break down. I planned on doing it once a year, but the chips last longer than a year.

I live in a residential Area I can only have 5 to 6 chicken no rooster I'll probably just do sand cause it seems easy to take care of.

6:22 Depending on who you talk to, you'll get different definitions for what means for chickens to be "free range". From what I have found on the internet, there is no true definition of what a free range means, and it seems that as long as a chicken has access to outside of the coop for at least 1 hour per day and are not kept in cages, then they could be considered "free range". So technically, just allowing them to be in the chicken run for most of the day, they could be considered "free range", which is what I do with my chickens.

New sub. First of all, thank you for your continued service. You are a kind person to be so helpful to the Country and your community. I was wondering, what part of the country are you located?

My mulch from the electric company is much bigger stuff. Your's has been chopped and ground up much smaller.

Just a suggestion if you get alot of rain you can buy rolls of window screen mesh. If you tack it up with the welding wire it prevents alot of water coming into the run.

I got over 40 birds, but some are jungle fowl that sleep in the trees, they hate the coop 😂. I totally agree about having to go and scoop up poop 💩, it's a waste of time, I'm building a pergola style run with no roof, the goal is have grass grow in there, this is easier than wood chips, I'm in the tropics, grass grows super fast here, I'm also trying new stuff to automate as much as possible to have extra time to do things.

Thanks for sharing!!

Ok, spit it out! No wonder you have no time.

Good video thanks

Mine r covered the ground does not get muddy

I use oat hay on sand It sticks to the hay Then you clean up once a month or so put it all in the compost hay and all

I want to use wood chips myself, but everybody keeps saying that your chickens can get bumble foot from splinters

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Your hen is only doing what comes naturally to her by looking for out of the way places to lay her eggs. I removed my nesting boxes that were on the upper part of their coop (that someone else had built) and I replaced them with kitty litter boxes on the ground, which they really liked. I used chopped straw on the ground, which was really good at soaking up wetness and breaking down as well. I also put a small kiddy pool in there full of fine, white sand in the run so that a handful of them could be in there are the same time. : )

God created the gravel by the river for man to use, then comes the all mighty government, and says, "Stop, I am your new god, and I forbid you to use any of the things that your previous God created for you to use".

You don’t have time? You wasted valuable time repeating yourself over and over again.