Painting Coop

[Golden buff]

I am getting a new coop in a few days. It isn’t painted and I know that the outside will need painting but I don’t know if I should paint the inside? Seems like painting the inside will make cleaning easier but I don’t know if it’s safe for chickens. Weather they would peck at the paint and get sick.

 

[McChooky]

I am getting a new coop in a few days. It isn’t painted and I know that the outside will need painting but I don’t know if I should paint the inside? Seems like painting the inside will make cleaning easier but I don’t know if it’s safe for chickens. Weather they would peck at the paint and get sick.

You paint it with an exterior latex paint such as Duramax

 

[Sefirothe]

I got this to paint the interior of my coop from the discounted oops wrong color shelf for a significant discount at Lowe’s. If you aren’t to picky about color you might get lucky.

It’s held up very well for two years now.

 

[Ted Brown]

"Whitewash made from lime is a traditional paint or coating created by mixing hydrated lime (builder’s or masonry lime) with water, and sometimes salt, to make a milky solution that turns bright white as it dries. This method has been used for centuries to coat barns, coops, and masonry, providing a natural disinfectant and giving surfaces a classic white."

Very inexpensive, very easy to apply (like painting with water).

 

[DonyaQuick]

If you're worried about paintig areas where the chickens may be tempted to nibble on it, there are livestock-safe latex paints made for that purpose.

Painting the inside sometimes makes cleaning easier...not always. Painted walls can still get stained easily, at least with livestock-safe paints, and it will get scraped up on the floor. I've found peel and stick tile protects the floor a lot better. My smaller coops do have the interior walls painted but I also have a big shed-to-coop conversion where I just covered the lower walls with more tiles to make it easier to clean than paint.

If you have any parts that need to slide, painting surfaces that need to move past each other can make them stick in an awful way. For example, if you have any kind of pull-out tray or pull-shut door, be careful with paint on those.