Coop flooding!

[HarleyBarley]

Help!

My coop was a shed that wasn't getting any usage so we decided to give it to our ladies for some more shelter. Now that we're getting spring rains it's so soggy inside!! I think maybe the shed is too large for the concrete pad it's on. What are your suggestions? I have a bunch of gravel I could use to fill in around their nesting boxes and roost?

Your experience and suggestions are welcome!!

 

[azygous]

Photos. Lots of photos would help us get ideas.

 

[Trish of the Coop]

My girls are currently pretending they are pigs and taking mud baths.. one is (was) white. Ugh. Do you have any old pallets that you could use to temporarily elevate the floor? At least get them up until you can renovate when spring is over?

 

[HarleyBarley]

Photos. Lots of photos would help us get ideas.

1. The shed from the outside
2.nesting boxes staying dry
3. Brooding coop moved insode the shed to provide an elevated shelter
4. Shed floor where I just raked away soggy hay
5. Corner or the shed that's not on the concrete pad
6. Soggy soggy soup run
7.more space for the ladies

 

[azygous]

Have you checked to see if the roof is leaking? Have you thought about trenching around the perimeter to redirect run-off? If there are no roof overhangs, then the rain will rundown the sides of the shed and seep into the interior through any cracks at the floorline. Caulking the inside of the shed along the bottom of the walls may be necessary to keep water from seeping in.

It kind of reminds me of the first state park housing they stuck me in as a new employee. It had been used previously as storage, and the roof leaked, water came up from the cracks in the cement floor, and I spent all my first night moving my bed around trying to find a spot where I wasn't getting dripped on from the leaky roof. Good times.

 

[aart]

Have you checked to see if the roof is leaking? Have you thought about trenching around the perimeter to redirect run-off? If there are no roof overhangs, then the rain will rundown the sides of the shed and seep into the interior through any cracks at the floorline.

This^^^

Need to go out there when it's raining hard and see where the water is flowing around and into the shed. Best time to dig trenches is in the pouring rain as you can see where the water flow is and direct it away from where you don't want it to go.