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I'm slowly re-modeling my hen house which will include poop boards. Would using a 4x8 sheet of Melanie cut in half be worth the extra cost vs just particleboard and painting it?
Depends on the goal of using the Melanie vs the particleboard.
I made mine out of plywood and had some leftover paint. So I painted the SH@#$% out of them, my goal was to make cleanup easier. But now I'm finding that if I keep the sweet PDZ deep enough then it doesn't really matter almost none of the poop reaches the boards.
If you are planning on bare boards that will need to be scraped clean then I would spend the extra on the Melanie, or try and find scraps of vinyl flooring that you can glue down over the particle boards.