I am now questioning our coop floor.

[cmom]

I have wire under my roost too.

Easy to rake the poop out from under the roots. With each new coop we tried to make the cleaning easier.

 

[ontimeborzoi]

I'm with everyone else...replace the chickenwire on the bottom of the coop with solid flooring, replace the chicken wire outside with welded wire or hardware cloth ( ratwire ) and while it may seem fine right now, chicken wire cannot be buried...it rots. Rusts. Falls apart, and quickly. Useless stuff, really, except for dividing up insides of big coops.

 

[Ole rooster]

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This is so true. Chicken wire will rot faster than a pile of leaves. I called the maker of the 2X4 welded wire to see if I could bury it without all the rot. I was told the wire would last without any problem for at least 15 years. And even then any galvanize errosion would be so slow I probably be dead before it made any difference.

And lastly, the advice on chicken wire and predators is true. It that instance it's useless. May as well use a hula skirt curtain.