floor material for concrete based run

Hi, its hens natural insticts to dig and scratch! Bark chippings, soil etc would be fab. Some of our members have got in touch with tree surgeons and managed to get a lorry full very cheaply or even free

Hi,My coop and run is on concrete too, I put some soil down and it also doubles as a dust bath (it is so funny to watch them do this ). They'll be fine.
Regards Wardy.

It's woodchip rather than bark, but yes, if you can contact a tree surgeon, their chippings are small and soft (including leaves and twigs) and make a great bedding.

No Beulah, i buy bark chippings
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Bark-Chippings/invt/200248

with a tree surgeon Beulah make sure that they haven't chopped laurel or other nasty trees in with the batch you get as the laurel leaves can contain cyanide which gets released when chopped or burnt 

hi i have an eglu cube on a concrete base. I have always used bark chippings and wait for the deals at homebase. i never considered a tree surgeon will be exploring that idea. thanks

hi there, funny this, but i've just come from another website (ordering some red mite powder) and that supplier had some rubber chippings for use in permanent chook runs - apparently easily hosed down to clean and long lasting!  Priced about 7 pounds for 10 Kgs
but minimum of 10 bags to be ordered!! So.... as usual 'you pay your money & take your pick'

If you want the supplier (& I'm NOT connected to them in any shape or form) they're called Wells and they're based in Ebbw Vale.