I'm planning on getting chickens soon.
I've built an secure run (5m by 5M - and 1.8M high) and was planning on putting the coop in there.
I generally work from home, so i'm planning on free ranging the birds on my large grass garden when i'm home but when i'm not home i'd want them in the secure run.
the secure run is floored by bark chips - though there are some trees growing up through this - and i also plan to add some large wooden planters to add some lettuce and other live/growing green veg for them to eat.
is the bark chip flooring ok for them to spend time on? they can scratch through it to the dirt below if they want - easily raked back. but just wondering if this was an ok substrate for them to be on.
worst case, i'd expect them to be in there 50% of the time, best case, they'll be on that for a few hours a day.