Coop nearly finished, looking for any suggestions for improvements :)

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

I to have made the poop pit the slates with chicken wire underneath of them I found it to be so much easier at clean up time you just rake under and throw it into the compost pile now I used a large holed chicken wire so you may want to think about that tried the small holed and with not such luck I will not go into details but lets just say it was hard to clean but on yours you may want to think about closing off the under coop pitt so the animals such as rats don't come up into the coop that way plus you have a little one out running around that would be to messy for her to get into besure to leave away to open it to rake it out on mine I went it underneath and a hinged door I rake it out shovle it up and off to the compost pile with it and if you go with the deep litter underneath of it it make for such easier cleaning I go in about once a week turn it all over DE it and then add more shavings if needed then once every couple months I go in and clean it all out off to the compost pile I go add more shavings and start all over again.

Great looking coop

Hubby did a good job If the ground is soild they will only dig but so far down But I would go with the apron I'm just saying..........

 

[Coralietg]

The above ground apron sounds like a really good idea. We're quite low-lying in Louisiana so if we dig down a bit it turns into swamp, lol.

Clogged up chicken wire doesn't sound pleasant, maybe I could gently encourage him to figure out some kind of poop-tray, hehe.

Thanks for all the suggestions, he gets home tonight so will hopefully do some more work to it

The chicks have been out for four nights, in the coop, in the brooder box (it's in the 80's at night here lately) and they seem to be doing perfectly fine. The older chicks seem to have adopted the babies too, they all huddle together and let them sleep under their wings, it's too cute. No obvious attempts so far at anything getting in, I check out of the window several times a night too, when will the paranoia stop!