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!)