Coop turned into muddy swamp

[Daox13]

trench around the coop to divert to water and use drainage gravel, its a quick fix for now and you can do something a little more extreme later. you should make the trench about a foot wide and at least 6 " deep if you can. digging should be easy for you now with the wet conditions. worse come to worse you can add onto the roof or put a gutter system on the roof to divert the off flow.
something like this but around a coop


if its due to the fact you have a low spot in your yard then you would need to correct that by adding elevation, raise bed or even for temporary purposes you could throw a few pallets under it for now to raise it up off the ground and give them something to walk on that isn't mud.

 

[Howard E]

Not sure how big the inside of your coop is, but goal is going to be to elevate the surface above the surrounding area. Principle is gravity works. (I learned this while camping with a bunch of Boy Scouts. If you pitched your tent in a low spot and it rained, you got soaked by several inches of water as water drained to you. On the other hand, if you pitched it on a high spot......it always drained away from you. That might only be 10 feet, but it made the difference between wet and dry.

A really good solution is an elevated concrete slab, but and equally effective short term solution might be pavers of some type. Up to and including solid concrete blocks that would be 4 inches thick. Lay them down as you would pavers, then pile your litter on top of that. Instant dry floor.

 

[Petra Pancake]

Thanks to you all, that's a lot of good suggestions. Seems I'll have to do some major renovations in the long run. If I can scrape the money together, maybe I'll get a whole new, dry and bigger coop. (If not, I could just switch to keeping ducks - they might like an indoor pool...

, well, not really)

 

[bostick18]

Careful with any kind of gravel in the bottom while it great for handling some sitting water it will get mixed up in hay and when you try and "muck out" the old hay and put down new stuff you'll end up with a bunch of rocks in the hay you take out which makes it really hard toto do anything with.. good luck.. I'm in south louisiana and it's never dry!!