coop floor

Hey y'all! My husband just built me a new goose coop! I'm excited to move them in, but I need some guidance on what to use as a "floor". We don't have one in there due to these birds being absolutely disgusting. 🤢 I think it would be more of a headache for me to try to clean WITH a floor as...

Well, the coop is almost finished, and I have a brooder full of chicks! I need to get flooring material down next. I was planning to line my coop with sand, and line my covered run with mulch (mixed size wood chips from a local tree guy). I was going to try to find suitable sand/gravel fines...

I bought a house 6 years ago... turned an existing 8x8 garden shed into a coop last minute 4 years ago. Didn’t know much at the time and made many mistakes! Currently the coop is infested with rats and about ready to fall over! Wanting to build a brand new coop in a new location and want to...

I have this old spring house in my yard, it's the perfect location to keep my ducks, gets good sunshine and my house blocks it from the wind pretty good. The roof is metal as you can see and is slightly sloped. My husband's idea is to build the coop that they sleep in on top of that and have a...

My bantam pullet has randomly started laying her eggs on the floor of the coop. I’ve read that newly laying pullets will do that, or if there isn’t enough, clean litter in the nesting boxes. But this girl has been laying for months and I just put clean bedding in the boxes. Seems really random...

We have two pullets that were broody raised here with us. They are about 4 months old now. The broody hen quit caring for them (or being nice to them) at around 6 weeks. I built my coop with a removable wall in the middle for integrating new ones. That seemed to work OK - the babies would...

This isn't my first building project, but it is my first chicken coop. I've built some other animal enclosures in the past. I have 4 Wyandotte pullets and have settled on a raised structure that will be 4'x4'x4' with an attached run roughly 8'x8'. I live in Upper Michigan and we get LOTS of...

Hello, i have 3 chickens. They are around 18 weeks old. 2 coronation sussex and one feverolle bantom. Babs, my dominant sussex, may be a rooster we arent sure yet but since we had her she had some kind of leg issue. We got them at 8 weeks and she immediately developed a respiratory illness...

Everyone said it would happen - we have outgrown the coop! I am purchasing a wood barn that I would use for chickens and possibly a few goats. Looking for suggestions on how to protect the plywood floor from manure damage. Sand is working great for me in the smaller coop and I would like to...

Hello, we are currently constructing a coop and have built the base so far which is several 2x6s and some 3/4 inch plywood on top. Our next step is to place flooring over the plywood. Thats where im stuck at this point. Ive looked at linoleum and vinyl flooring but most i saw online did not look...

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I am new to this chicken game and have a coop kit that we set up. There is no floor to it which is fine but we were wondering what is better for the chickens. To have deck boards for a floor which are easy to clean and offer protection from predators or just have the ground as a floor. I know...