Coop on a hillside - roost heights

[micstrachan]

Wow! That looks amazing!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thank you! I am very excited about it. Honestly the coop is nicer than my living room (if you can get used to the dirt floor of course!). Some reclaimed doors and windows have really helped make it very fancy. The roof is the priority over the next few days before the next storm. I will post again at next milestone which hopefully will be coop interior. Thanks for all the encouragement.

Very nice.
Guttering is a great invention, simple addition but makes life so much better.

 

[aart]

Guttering is a great invention, simple addition but makes life so much better.

Can be a blessing....or a curse.

 

[svh]

That is an awesome coop !

Mine is on a hill as well, and offered up some challenges also.

I still need to gutter mine, as the down hill side ground, takes a beating from the runoff. The barn roof runs off onto the coop roof, so I get double trouble, and REALLY NEED to address this soon.

 

[RoyalChick]

That is an awesome coop !

Mine is on a hill as well, and offered up some challenges also.

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I still need to gutter mine, as the down hill side ground, takes a beating from the runoff. The barn roof runs off onto the coop roof, so I get double trouble, and REALLY NEED to address this soon.

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Oh love that set-up! Do you have issues with all the litter ending up piled up against the 'downhill' wall? I am worrying about that given how steep my slope is!

 

[svh]

Oh love that set-up! Do you have issues with all the litter ending up piled up against the 'downhill' wall? I am worrying about that given how steep my slope is!

Yes, it does tend to "migrate" downhill. Actually it tends to work out, as they mostly roost on the downhill side, and I'm goin for the deep litter thing, so the most of the poo ends up there as well.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes, it does tend to "migrate" downhill. Actually it tends to work out, as they mostly roost on the downhill side, and I'm goin for the deep litter thing, so the most of the poo ends up there as well.

Understood. I have a clean-out door on the downhill side so my thinking is that periodically I just rake it all out to the run where it will continue to go down hill and eventually when it gets down to the very bottom it will go into the wheelbarrow and on to the compost heap. That is my vision at least!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Understood. I have a clean-out door on the downhill side so my thinking is that periodically I just rake it all out to the run where it will continue to go down hill and eventually when it gets down to the very bottom it will go into the wheelbarrow and on to the compost heap. That is my vision at least!

Does raking it into the run mean that the floor of the coop is sloped like the hill?

 

[RoyalChick]

Does raking it into the run mean that the floor of the coop is sloped like the hill?

Yes. The reason I started this thread was because I was trying to get my mind around how to think about roost height when the slope inside the coop is so steep. The coop and the first run are steeply sloped and then it ends in a much more gently sloped final run.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes. The reason I started this thread was because I was trying to get my mind around how to think about roost height when the slope inside the coop is so steep. The coop and the first run are steeply sloped and then it ends in a much more gently sloped final run.

I get you. Putting roosts in a building with a sloped floor isn't a problem.
However sloping a floor can be a problem.
There are many ways to create a level building on a hill.
A couple are using in ground posts or deck blocks you can put 4X4s into to create a level platform.
I'm sorry I didn't understand your original question. I didn't know your floor was slanted.
I've never built a building with a sloped floor.