Taken into consideration...coop cleaning!

[C & A s Dad]

I am relatively new here but I have a wooden floor made of 3/4 treated decking. I primed it with a premium primer and put on 2 coats of paint. I also cut my floor about 8 inches short down one side of the house and used another piece of wood attached to a "piano style" continuous hinge. I can lift up the hinged trap door and wash it out. I then have the underside of the house ditched so the water will run off.

I am attaching pic. You can barely see the trap door. It is under the waterer and it overlaps the regular flooriing about 3 inches. It is hinged down the wall side and runs the entire length of the house.

 

[pepper1]

we first had our baby birds in Orlando, FL - we had a 4x6 coop with a hardwarecloth floor - raised about 3 feet off the ground - the cleaning amounted to shoveling from the ground to the compost pile. The birds went up a ramp into the coop at night to roost - their coop was enclosed in a hardware cloth outdoor yard - we had panthers and snakes to contend with in FL. So we called our run/coop Fort Chicken. During the 4 week winter - we added a few bags of pine shavings for warmth - to keep the drafts from coming up into the coop. Now we are living in southcentral PA and our birds have a 10x16 wooden shed with a wood floor and an enclosed yard attached to the coop. We use the deep litter method using about 6 to 8 inches deep pine shavings - and completely clean out and replace all shavings about every 6 months. We have 14 birds and nothing sticks to the floor - our floors are swept clean and we start over. We just have plain plywood floors. Hope this is helpful. Maryellen in PA