I bought my daughter the OverEZ chicken coop. It is well built and easy to assemble with 2 people. She has 5 chiickens in the medium. Plenty of space. I thick it was $800. Some will say that is way too expensive. But well built and easy are worth the money to me. We bought a 20x10 dog kennel...
I have sand on my wood floor. There is industrial wall paper over the wood but it is just to make yearly full clean out easier. Sand does get under it directly on floor.
Diannastarr, I also use sand in my run and coop. It is very easy to clean. I don't clean the run. It is very large and the chickens scratch everything around so I can't even see poop. It takes 5 minutes in the coop. I have't changed it, just add more as needed. I wanted to speak to your dust...
I have some of the coop. I will get some of the greenhouse side and post later. It is pouring outside and has many days. Run is dry under roof and fairly dry under area
without roof. I sank 2X8 with hardware cloth in ground to prevent anything from digging under but they also prevent runoff into...
Thanks. It was a lot of hard work but I used a lot of recycled material to save money. Thanks to this forum I hopefully have a very low maintenance coop. It will only take 12 years worth of eggs to re"coop" my cost.