Cooped up hens

Hi. My first reply so I hope I'm doing it right. Its a question for compostqueen actually. Hi. I've just read what you said about the chipped bark. I saw some bags, I think of the same stuff up at our local T.P yard last week while I was scrounging for pallets. I wondered if you could tell me what sort of area one of these bags will cover and what depth? I hope when I get my chicken house built and run done to be able to leave my girls out all day. The trouble is I'm having to build it all on the wettest end of my allotment so now I'm thinking this could be a good idea if we get too much more wet weather. I guess after use this stuff could be chucked on my veggie area?

Thanks for that. I'm guessing that my run will be bigger than that but then if they have a fairly clean area near the house it wont hurt them to go into the mud so long as it doesn't get too bad. Also I suppose if it builds up the level of the ground a bit it might stop it getting so wet in the future. Am I right in thinking garden lime sprinkled on occassionally will help de-toxify the chips if they spend alot of time on it?

I think my hens like rain better than sunshine... sll the lovely worms!"!!!! Two of my young hens were squabbling over a huge worm the other afternoon... playing tug of war ...suddenly they both let go, the worm flew through the air and landed at the feet of a surprised but very happy duck.. who of course slurrped it down before the hens could get to it!!!!