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I finally got the roof on in time for the rain. It rained all day today, and I went out to check on the chickens and noticed that in the poop pit was a BUNCH of pooled water! UGH. Not sure what to do about that. Now I am seriously thinking about bailing on the pit idea and just going to...

Quote: If you do that, you'll have a permanent poop pile under the coop that you can't clean out...flies, odor, YUCK. Make sure the barriers are removable somehow. I agree with using some type of 1" hardware cloth to cover the pit and smaller wire elsewhere, for safety's sake. 1" should be...

Quote: Oooh cool! That is a great idea!

Yea this one is not a mover. It is meant to stay put. I will have to clean the pit from time to time.

Yea my other coop is overrun with poop. Hard to keep clean that is why I thought about this after having seen an example in an old picture. I am also going to try deep litter in this new one too. My other is a cabinet type and not sure if deep litter will work as well with that.

Quote: I think it might be drafty but you can do something else, if you boxed the out sid with removable or open and close doors for clean up that might be real practice. I am planning to put in a door into the pit in the wall just above it, so I can clean it out from time to time. Maybe I...

Also I forgot to mention I will put wire mesh - half or quarter inch around the pit from the floor to the ground so no critters can get into the pit at all, much less into the coop.

I will be using wire mesh to keep critters out, but was hoping it could be big enough for poop to fall through. Like 1"? would that work? As for drafts, the birds will be over open ground, but will be about 5 1/2 up inside the coop. Will that be drafty for them? I am not sure about the...

Here is my new chicken coop in progress. I just put the roof rafters on today. I have a droppings pit planned for it and was wondering how people felt about those. Is it a good idea, or is something else better? I can still change it if i need to, but I thought having three 10 ft roosts...