Best Flooring For Duck Run

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.

Best flooring for duck run.

I posted this on the predator forum but i realize that the duck people will know best. For easy cleaning and to preserve your coop floor put a tarp down before any bedding or some peel and stick floor tiles on the floor and walls. You want to plan for 15 sq ft of run space per duck compared to 8 10 sq ft for chickens. Tarp or floor tiles.

Written by bri wyzard. Let s talk chicken coop floors. Why i recommend wood chips for a muddy chicken run. I need advice as to the best flooring for our new duck pen.

So much easier for the duck keeper than the chicken keeper. 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. Also be sure to paint or stain the outside of the coop to help protect the coop and extend its service life.

And our next and current duck coop was built out of pallets. There are multiple options when choosing a suitable flooring for your chicken run. 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. Some are good at keeping predators out of your coop.

A two to three foot barrier will suffice. 8 chicken coop floor options. Low down duck nests. The shavings just don t stick around and the problem is often worse after these things are added to a muddy chicken run.

I m hoping one day they ll get to graduate to an adorable duck house. Honestly i don t just recommend using wood chips for a muddy chicken run. Some are easy to clean. The actual structure of a duck coop can be as basic or as fancy as you d like.

Some are easy to build. There are so many options. Flightless large breed and clipped wing ducks are very easy to contain in an area of the garden. Our first duck coop was built out of pvc pipe chicken wire leftover greenhouse plastic and a really cool sliding door.

While the run didn t need to be small i also didn t want to spend too much money on this project.