Our coop doesn’t have a floor

[RoyalChick]

Definitely will do a daily perimeter scan! We are home everyday most of the day so that will be no problem. Oh okay! That is a good idea about the skirt! Will probably go ahead and do that before we lay down the rocks! We are so excited for our chickens and we just want them to be as safe as possible, as affordably as possible!

I think you will find a skirt on surface under the gravel a good investment.
And it will be much harder to install once you have the gravel!
Honestly if cost is an issue I would skip the gravel until you can afford to add it on top of a hardware cloth skirt.

 

[StinkyAcres]

You could always place a few pallets on top of the wet spots if you need to keep them out of it. Chickens love to perch on pallets. You can usually find free pallets on websites like Craigslist.

 

[eevans1213]

I think you will find a skirt on surface under the gravel a good investment.
And it will be much harder to install once you have the gravel!
Honestly if cost is an issue I would skip the gravel until you can afford to add it on top of a hardware cloth skirt.

We actually already have some hardwire cloth and just some gravel that we removed from the coop area to make the ground more level and easier to clean. So we are going to try to use what we have!