Hi and thanks for accepting me as a member.
I’m a beginner who is doing some research on keeping chickens at the moment.
I have space of about 10.5sq/m which is slabbed.
I plan on building around this area to make it my run and also buy a professionally built coop which I still have to source. I’m looking keeping 2/3 chickens in this area.
One of the main things I don’t want to mess up is protecting the chickens. I want to get this bit correct.
I’m looking for some advice on what to do about the run floor.
I can keep all the slabs as they are and buy Aubiose bedding to fill the floor.
From what I understand they will need a separate dust bath area and this Aubiose bedding would require completely cleaned out every 4-6weeks?
Another possibility I was also looking at is to remove these slabs, laying a mesh floor, covering this mesh floor with membrane and then topping this with Aubiose bedding. I’m not sure if they will dig or peck into the membrane and I don’t know if I’m creating more work for myself by removing a perfectly good floor already.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I’m a beginner who is doing some research on keeping chickens at the moment.
I have space of about 10.5sq/m which is slabbed.
I plan on building around this area to make it my run and also buy a professionally built coop which I still have to source. I’m looking keeping 2/3 chickens in this area.
One of the main things I don’t want to mess up is protecting the chickens. I want to get this bit correct.
I’m looking for some advice on what to do about the run floor.
I can keep all the slabs as they are and buy Aubiose bedding to fill the floor.
From what I understand they will need a separate dust bath area and this Aubiose bedding would require completely cleaned out every 4-6weeks?
Another possibility I was also looking at is to remove these slabs, laying a mesh floor, covering this mesh floor with membrane and then topping this with Aubiose bedding. I’m not sure if they will dig or peck into the membrane and I don’t know if I’m creating more work for myself by removing a perfectly good floor already.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.