need advice on using a covering for plywood floor of coop

[cluckcluckhens]

I feeling just fine right now. It was Monday scan that really took me down until yesterday. I have pictures when he started building the coop in January I think. I remember coop was done at the end of March. Only hubby and my brother built it. Most of the coop pictures are on the other message board that I belong to. I bring over facebook photos and cross-post them to the message board. Most of the members is all women except for a few guys. Some left the board and went to facebook. We had a service on Saturday over there for a dear friend that left us to early in life when this message board started up in 2009. It's a shiba inu puppy board, we have lots of threads for just about anything you want to talk about. Seem like this one here is bigger than the other one an that is where most of my chickens and coop pictures are at. Hubby is a wood maker of products that he makes and those are over there too. Let me see if I remember where the coop (palace) photos are over there if not I will grab them from photobucket where they are stored. The palace (coop) was named by one of the women that is a member over there and thought the palace sounded better than the chicken coop, that is how it got named. Hubby calls it the outbuilding. After I feed the kids (cats) I'll go and look, I have 10 minutes until they get fed.

 

[Latestarter]

It seems like an awesome idea, I'm just trying to work on a budget, and it's a little out of my price range.

Just trying to get more ideas. Thank you for your help.

Ummmm I don't think you could do a solid rubber mat floor for less than what the blackjack would cost. Don't know the square footage, but a solid rubber mat to be seamless to cover the entire floor would be substantially more expensive. If you really want cheap, get a piece of linoleum and plan to replace it a few years from now when hopefully you can afford it. A 4.7 gallon bucket of Blackjack is ~ $60.00. Spread it with an old broom or dust brush. Nuthin fancy, no sweat, no strain. As has been mentioned, have the PAINT dept (it's located in the roofing area) put the 5 gal bucket in their paint shaker and shake it for you (twice would be better and have them put it in UPSIDE DOWN the first time round!).

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Latestarter -- I think I mentioned what you said about a month ago since hubby was going to do this but, decided on another method. That's a great idea and would be easy clean up I think.

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Front door, and other door leading to the other half

Back side. Windows and roosting area

Windows with the round wood closure.

Metal Roof

Double Doors

Back Side

Installing the Floor

Lighted Entry

Chicken Feeder

Deck on the Front and Side. To the Bottom Left Chick Door

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Still trying to find the inside the full length of the inside. It's not on the chip or on my back up H/D!

 

[Latestarter]

Holy cow CC Hens, that could be GUEST quarters!!

Are those hard wood floors you're installing??!!

That is way too nice to be a chicken coop! Next thing you'll be telling us is that it's heated with running water and bathroom facilities!

Those are going to be some seriously spoiled chickens!

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Actually that is hard wood. The palace has been done since the end of March. It's got an outside light, and lights on the inside on both sides, chickens side and the riding mower side too. It has two layers of plastic on top of the wooden floor and then straw. We didn't want the wood to be messed up, you know how chicken are, they don't care. I could actually be a club house for children or a play area for kids if it wasn't a coop. He wanted something nice that we wouldn't get our shoes muddy in the winter when it starts to rain. Our shoes will not get muddy now and no slipping and slidding on mud this year. Old coop was a portable coop that we could pull around to different location and had two wheels on it. Plus the hen house inside the coop. I have to show you the old one. Nothing fancy. This one is what we started out with in 2012. That last line is very funny. Heated, running water and a bathroom. Nope, those are not included in the palace. Palace could be guest quarters or a place to practice music or have a jam in there. Hubby plays music too. Violin, Viola, Stand up Bass and Cello. He's in a few music groups here in town.

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Holy cow CC Hens, that could be GUEST quarters!!

Are those hard wood floors you're installing??!!

That is way too nice to be a chicken coop! Next thing you'll be telling us is that it's heated with running water and bathroom facilities!

Those are going to be some seriously spoiled chickens!

Hubby said all of those can be arranged. As far as the toilet, that is the chicken run, or the plastic floor in the building.

 

[ladyearth]

CC
You might want to rethink straw... cause on here members said it could harbor mites.... I got rid of my straw immediately after reading that on this forum... instead, put it in my gsrden paths...
just a saying....

 

[marktoo]

Just a heads up I ordered BlackJack57 online at Lowes and it was not the same product I went to pick up. Just a warning. So i canceled my order and got this instead at HD.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Henry-4-75-Gal-287-Solarflex-White-Roof-Coating-HE287SF871/100051140

I was able to run it up the walls about a foot, no drips. Once dry applied 2nd coat to floor and except for kitty prints, it looks great.

Much lighter inside too. I really wanted to go with JackE's advice but was unable to get it.

I was wondering how this product was holding up for ya as I would prefer to use it over the blackjack is possible. Thanks!