What to use under the run?

Right question in the title basically what do you use under your runs that are on grass to stop your furrys digging out? Ihave this chicken coop for Jojo to move into when the spring/early summer comes around, this is the coop

Its huge!! How about a big bit of old carpet?

ah i want her to be able to get to the grass, it is big 3 meters by 1.3 meter or something like that right bargain it was £140

that's amazing They're gonna love it! I have no idea what to use, could you put paving slabs or similar around the edges?

Mine don't have anything and have never tried to dig out. They did dig a big burrow, but that was in the middle of the run and was just based on instinct rather than an escape plan.

I would wait and see if she is a digger. You can take a spade and lift the turf around the edge horizontally, then slip under some chicken wire at the edge and relay the turf. That way if they did at the edges, they don't get out.

NickieM wrote:Mine don't have anything and have never tried to dig out. They did dig a big burrow, but that was in the middle of the run and was just based on instinct rather than an escape plan.

I would wait and see if she is a digger. You can take a spade and lift the turf around the edge horizontally, then slip under some chicken wire at the edge and relay the turf. That way if they did at the edges, they don't get out.

Wasnt an escape plan??? Wolfie and Gloria??? You've seen the great escape right?? Stuck your arm down there lately? Id hazard a guess its shorn up all the way, full of supplies and about to break ground somewhere near watership down......

OK, on reflection that does sound unbelievable! However, a burrow built in the middle of the run does sound like a miscalculation on Gloria's part. That is probably why they were climbing the fence instead.

Sorry to go off topic but could you tell me here you got the hutch from please? I'm thinking of getting a similar hutch for when I get my rabbits

oh im liking the idea of the chicken wire around the edges well if living inside is anything to go by she is a definate digger
I got it from Ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chicken-coop-duck-hen-house-large-run-/200560568091?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Poultry&hash=item2eb257671b it says 13 to 15 days delivery but a bit of sweet talk and i got it the next day

I think I have seen pics of set ups where people have done what Jay suggested there

Two of my rabbits were on a run in the middle of the lawn most days and they never tried to dig out. In fact none of my rabbits have ever tried to dig directly on the grass, only where the flowers are planted are so like where its just soil. I always assumed the reason people did this was to stop foxes digging in not rabbits digging out We don't have foxes so I never bothered doing it. They never got out anyways