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Terry, I've been thinking about trying to find a deal on linoleum myself, to put on the wooden floor in my coop, to make it easier to clean, and also to stop the litter falling out through the cracks between the boards. I think it would work well. It would have to be old-fashioned linoleum, though, not that flimsy vinyl floor covering they sell these days. The chickens would tear that stuff to bits, scratching.
If you have a wooden floor, I don't see any need for hardware cloth on the floor over the lino. Raccoons wouldn't be able to tear through wooden floors. This is assuming you don't have really big gaps between boards. Lino's pretty tough, too. If you have coons that can rip through wooden boards and linoleum....I don't want to meet them.
On the issue of doors and which way they open, we made ours open out, for several reasons:
So we don't hit chickens with the door when we open it, especially when there are chicks that could easily be crushed.
It keeps more floor space available inside for feeders, waterers, or whatever, because the space doesn't have to be kept clear for the door to swing open.
Litter won't build up and make the door hard to open.
When I'm cleaning out the coop, the door's latched open, swung outside the coop and out of my way.
Everybody's posted great info on this thread, I've gotten some new ideas here.
hmmm. I had no idea that there had been a huge shift in the quality of linoleum. Makes sense tho, why would it be different than anything else?
Vintage linoleum...
ebay?
I am having more fun doing this chicken coop than I am doing our bathroom !!
