Best Flooring For Duck Run

Some are easy to clean.

Best flooring for duck run.

Honestly i don t just recommend using wood chips for a muddy chicken run. While the run didn t need to be small i also didn t want to spend too much money on this project. I m hoping one day they ll get to graduate to an adorable duck house. A two to three foot barrier will suffice.

I need advice as to the best flooring for our new duck pen. 8 chicken coop floor options. I ve learned so much recently from reading all of your posts and really appreciate any advice. Let s talk chicken coop floors.

If your run is on your lawn and portable you can move it around the garden once an area has become worn to allow the grass to recover. Why i recommend wood chips for a muddy chicken run. I have seen pine shavings and sawdust used on top of the run but this rarely works out well. Make sure the run has at least two meters square for the birds to range in.

Some are easy to build. Also be sure to paint or stain the outside of the coop to help protect the coop and extend its service life. I posted this on the predator forum but i realize that the duck people will know best. The best flooring materials for your coop.

You want to plan for 15 sq ft of run space per duck compared to 8 10 sq ft for chickens. This is our situation. Our first duck coop was built out of pvc pipe chicken wire leftover greenhouse plastic and a really cool sliding door. So much easier for the duck keeper than the chicken keeper.

Flightless large breed and clipped wing ducks are very easy to contain in an area of the garden. Low down duck nests. Though if you have a chicken run that remains in one position or you don t have a lawn you may find that after some rain it becomes a bit of a quagmire difficult to clean. There are so many options.

Some are good at keeping predators out of your coop. And our next and current duck coop was built out of pallets. The actual structure of a duck coop can be as basic or as fancy as you d like. The shavings just don t stick around and the problem is often worse after these things are added to a muddy chicken run.

Tarp or floor tiles.