Suggestions to protect shed/coop floor?

[-Olive-]

OP is from "GB" which I'm interpreting as great Britain (could be wrong). Unprotected wood floors will not last in that environment

Ahahaha yes I’m in Wales, the land of sheep, dragons, and rain ️

 

[-Olive-]

I would use the cheap roll of vinyl flooring that you can get by the foot from home depot and lowes

Aye good idea, however I have a very strange bunny who would LOVE to have vinyl for breakfast

thanks.

 

[Floof]

Aye good idea, however I have a very strange bunny who would LOVE to have vinyl for breakfast

thanks.

You can secure it down like the floor in in your home but shy of adding a flooring material you're pretty much just left with painting it

 

[-Olive-]

You can secure it down like the floor in in your home but shy of adding a flooring material you're pretty much just left with painting it

Yeah good point. Thank you!

And thanks everyone who responded, youve all been a great help!x

 

[Nyhillbillies]

BlackJack 57. Search herein lots of positive recommendations.

Inexpensive, waterproof, durable.

Thank you for the BJ reminder!!!!

 

[Morning_Star]

Are you planning on composting the poop in the coop?

I was worried about what to put on the floor too when building just like you. I ended up just painting it with some rust paint. It worked out good because I pick out the poop under the roost almost daily and the bedding never gets moist so the barrier doesn't really matter.

 

[avjudge]

That will work in a dry environment (I see you are from California) but not anywhere that gets regular precipitation. The OP is from "GB" which I'm interpreting as great Britain (could be wrong). Unprotected wood floors will not last in that environment

That’s what a roof and walls are for! And a floor should be on joists which keep it off the damp ground.

My winter coop is inside a corner of my barn. The floor is wood - rough-sawn local softwood - with no coating or cover, on 2x6 PT joists/sleepers. When the chickens were using it last winter I bedded it with 4-6 inches of bedding (shredded cardboard). I would pick poop from under the roost with a manure fork when it was solidly frozen, leave it to mix with the bedding when it wasn’t.

When the chickens were moved out to their summer quarters I cleaned it & found the wood floor under the bedding was cleaner than the same floor outside the coop, in the adjoining storage/workshop area! It’s now rebedded, again directly on the wood, waiting for winter and the chickens to return.