Laurie

I don't guess moving the coop isn't an option. I had a similar situation
with a pheasant pen that was built during the drought and without thoughts
of "normal" weather. I had to install a 4" drain and cover with coarse
sand(I needed the sand for dusting anyway). I did have slope away from
flight pen and this worked rather well except for some edges around the pen
with high traffic area and lots of red clay.

Baine

"laurie (Mother Mastiff)" wrote in
message ...
My lot is all downhill, and unfortunately that's where the chicken house
is.
There is a new problem with a pipe underground that was supposed to
protect
and house an electric line (never used) that now seems to collect water
from
the yard and pour it out into the chicken house (because the top of the
pips
is lower than the level of the ground it is draining from). This alone
causes flooding and deaths in the chick pen. Hard rains like the recent
storms soak much of the chicken house and pens, and poo-laced mud is
unhealthy for the birds as well as nasty for the neighbors' delicate
noses.

I need an intelligent, inventive drainage person who is clever with
ditches
and drainage devices, can you recommend anyone? I am out of work so will
have to use my regular lawn guy for the labor, what I need is a diagnosis
and practical, usable solutions.

Desperately,

laurie (Mother Mastiff) (very worried about the young birds who are
swimming
in a lake of poo-ey mud and don't have webbed feet!)