Concrete is GREAT flooring, very predatorproof and with a certain useful amount of thermal mass. Just bed it well so they don't hurt themselves jumping down.
You could certainly put a large, short drain into the floor, keep it capped most of the time, then hose through it when you are cleaning. If it is a SHORT pipe it will not clog any more than you can easily fix; don't make it a long run, though (she says, having spent a lot of time in years past kneeling on the floor of a horse wash stall reaching up to her shoulder into a clogged floor drain to try to dislodge the dead rat or whatever it was... more than once.... EEUUUWWW...)
Honestly though I do not see the appeal that hosing out a coop seems to hold for people. I do not see it as being at all necessary, unless you have had some serious disease problem; and unless you're in a very dry-air climate, I do not see it as being *desirable* either, for humidity reasons.
JMHO, good luck, have fun,
Pat
You could certainly put a large, short drain into the floor, keep it capped most of the time, then hose through it when you are cleaning. If it is a SHORT pipe it will not clog any more than you can easily fix; don't make it a long run, though (she says, having spent a lot of time in years past kneeling on the floor of a horse wash stall reaching up to her shoulder into a clogged floor drain to try to dislodge the dead rat or whatever it was... more than once.... EEUUUWWW...)
Honestly though I do not see the appeal that hosing out a coop seems to hold for people. I do not see it as being at all necessary, unless you have had some serious disease problem; and unless you're in a very dry-air climate, I do not see it as being *desirable* either, for humidity reasons.
JMHO, good luck, have fun,
Pat
