FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[lilwildrabbit]

I have never seen any place in Florida that doesn't have deep sand if you want it see just till it up and place your fencing deep into the sand it will be fine

 

[tifanicole]

@lilwildrabbit oh, yeah. Maybe I wasn't clear. I want to build it up in the run so they aren't scratching near the base of the coop. I have some extra sand on our lot I plan to relicate into the run.

 

[cmom]

I put some hardware cloth around the bottoms of my coops. I don't how much sand you want to put in it but it will get scratched up and moved around by the birds. They are great excavators. Do you have any pictures you could post?

 

[tifanicole]

@cmom yes, I understand that which is why I'd rather have a few extra inches no pics, still under construction. But it's fine. I know what I want, even if I didn't convey it well.

 

[cmom]

I did misunderstand. Post some pictures sometime. Just curious. Good luck and have fun.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Because of our warm winters I took the flooring out under the roost replaced it with chicken wire so the poop would fall through onto the ground under the coop easier to clean and supplies ventilation if it gets cold I can place a tarp on the bottom to hold out the cold I actually built a wagon that goes under it so the poop don't have to be shoveled out just pulled out bagged and my neibours love it for the gardens and flower beds

 

[cmom]

I have welded wire under my roosts in my coops. The poop falls through it onto the ground.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Lots easier that way instead of cleaning out the coop every week I clean mine out once a month change the hay in the nest boxes and smile for a month!!

 

[tifanicole]

It's the run I was specifically asking about. Not the coop but I do plan to use sand in our coop as well, it will have a solid floor. There are in progress pictures of our swing set coop/run in the coop design forum. But it's still just framed out so not very interesting. The thread is titled Sunnydale. This is only part of our set up as we plan on setting up a larger fenced chicken "yard", if you will.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

we were talking about your run I didn't know what for a coop you had or were building I just wanted to comment about using the poop as a fertilizer because birds poop more while roosting then they usually do all day