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It dosen't have to be open to the outside all the time. Just make the side of it that is against the wall of the coop a door that swings up when you want to clean out the poop. Close the door to keep out the cold breeze.

I read a story about this concerning human history. All the homes had dirt floors at one time, but for better insulation people starting using the thresh left over from the harvest to put on the floors. They had the same problem you are describing. Being creative one family used an old board...

2x4 wire will keep the grown chickens in, but you might not be thinking about chicks at this point. The 2x4 won't keep chicks in, especially bantam chicks like I have. Everyone is right about sparrows getting in. I have Purple Martins in the spring and sparrows are a hazard, so I try to keep...

You can dust your vegetable garden with 5% Sevin dust and harvest the next day. Personally I go with the 10% Sevin in my chicken pen and vegetable garden in the early spring before there's anything to harvest. The chickens are not going to eat the stuff. For fly problems I sprinkle wood ashes...

Take feeder in for the night and bait one of these http://www.biconet.com/traps/tincat.html with some of the feed.

So how many stations can ya pick up that thing?

When I was a kid my dad put up a single-strand electric fence around our pea patch. The next morning that wire was strung out across the road and out thru the woods. Took him for ever to get it back together. I guess it worked cause it never got knocked down like that again.

I don't have a poop board, but I have been thinking about a poop box/chamber. If you have the space that is. I don't have anything under the roosts and was thinking about building a box with a hardware screen on top that is big enough to cover the area under the roost. Their poop drops down...

I'm going to steal that little trellis you have in your garden for my cucumbers!

Personally I think your husband is right. You won't be able to use it for anything else, cause you're always gonna have chickens in it! Addiction, all it takes is one chicken!

You should at least have some kind of litter under the roost, that's where the most poop will be. It will be easier to clean the poopy litter off the concrete than cleaning it off the concrete.

Sprinkle wood ashes all around in your coop and run. These will keep down the flies and take away any smells too.

Next time relocate it to her closet!

lawn mower...? maybe?

You probably are having more flies this year because its been wetter than before. If you have access to ashes (wood ashes) from a fireplace, heater or those furnaces just sprinkle them all over the wet areas. Small chunks of unburned wood (charcoal, not the bbq stuff) won't hurt either. If...

Dirt floor for 8 yrs. Its a 3-sided coop with the open side facing south into the run. The run is covered with chicken wire on top and 2x4 "dog-wire" for the sides except for about 4 ft up that has chicken wire over the dog-wire. I have sand in under the covered (tin) coop part, but during...

Robin'sBrood : Would charcoal ash work? We use a charcoal grill quite often so I some of that on hand already. Don't know about the charcoal, probably won't hurt, but by wood ashes, I mean firewood, mostly oak, or campfire ashes.

That's a niffty looking design. I'd need to beef up the top of the pen cause my grandkids would be on top before you could say "shoo". How many do you plan on putting in there? Chickens that is, not grandkids.

You can use it on the walls, just not where they walk, set or roost. You can use wood ashes and "pelletized lime" for livestock on the floors/ground. I use ashes all the time, cuts down on the smell and flies during the wetter months. Shake it onto the ground and throw a little straw on top...

You can reduce the amount of flies by shaking/sprinkling wood ashes in your coop and pen. Lime will help too. Both will help with the smell as well. It seems I get the most flies during the wetter months in spring.