ChickenFajita6
Songster
- Apr 1, 2017
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So we just got our coop & run up. We still have to pretty it up, but functionality wise it's done. Or supposed to be.
Our coop sits on a concrete slab. We've had nasty rain the past few days, and it seems water is coming up under the walls! The slab inside the coop is wet. I expected it near the windows from rain blowing in, but even in corners with no windows it's wet. I scraped back the wood shavings and the ground is just saturated.
That's not good, right? We just dealt with major flooding back in August (lost our house) so wetness and mold are major panic buttons for me right now.
I went in and shoveled out all the wet & damp shavings and tossed them into the run, and just have the wet concrete inside the coop exposed right now with a fan running to help air flow. But we get rain almost daily in the summer, sometimes just quick little showers, sometimes systems that pour for a week. How bad is all this for my chickens?? I know that rain isn't going to hurt them, but wet concrete under their bedding in the coop. That can't be good.
Our coop sits on a concrete slab. We've had nasty rain the past few days, and it seems water is coming up under the walls! The slab inside the coop is wet. I expected it near the windows from rain blowing in, but even in corners with no windows it's wet. I scraped back the wood shavings and the ground is just saturated.
That's not good, right? We just dealt with major flooding back in August (lost our house) so wetness and mold are major panic buttons for me right now.
I went in and shoveled out all the wet & damp shavings and tossed them into the run, and just have the wet concrete inside the coop exposed right now with a fan running to help air flow. But we get rain almost daily in the summer, sometimes just quick little showers, sometimes systems that pour for a week. How bad is all this for my chickens?? I know that rain isn't going to hurt them, but wet concrete under their bedding in the coop. That can't be good.