I'm struggling looking at mine, can't stand seeing such a mess.
Actually, I've been really surprised at how well ours have done so far.
The hens are in a pen made from about eight lambing hurdles. They're criss-crossed with lengths of timber, with a tarp and some old windsurfer sails stretched over the top to make a roof. I expected the ground to be disgusting by now, but actually it's still looking pretty good. Maybe that's because we only have six hens at the moment, or perhaps it's because we're keeping the rain off. It's working though, so I'm not going to mess with it.
The ducks are in a bay of the lambing shed, and we throw fresh hemcore down every day (deep litter method), which keeps things bearable. The key thing was that we cut a hole through the wall to give them an 0.5m
2 outside area enclosed with netting, and with a board on top. We put a few barrow loads of gravel down to help drainage, and then use that area for their water bucket. Ducks are going to splash and dabble, but because they can only wet the well drained outside bit, their main inside pen is actually not too hard to keep sanitary.
Obviously everybody's situation is different, but perhaps that's helpful to some?