Terrible Coop Situation!

[aart]

Yes, it is higher.

That's bummer...wonder how that happened?

I will have to pay attention when it rains to see if the water is running off the roof, or not. Because if it's just coming off the roof, I may be able to put up a gutter...

Get a good rain coat and umbrella it's the best way to finger it out.

 

[MissChick@dee]

I would if you can afford it get a load of gravel in to raise up your floor. That's what we had to do. We add some in yearly as the chickens consume some, and it gets packed down. Once the inside floor is higher than outside you can decide whether to bed it down or manage the gravel. In warmer weather we rake off the droppings as necessary. In winter we add a layer of hay to get birds off the floor a bit in parts.

I don't know how handy you are but adding windows would be nice so you can control ventilation and let in light.

We also replaced some tin on ours when it was tin to see through panels for extra light.

Another good idea. It takes a few layers to be a engineered dry coop

 

[blackandtan]

My coop has some flood risk in the spring so I made my floor of pallets (free) and a couple sheets of plywood. They stay dry and because it’s off the ground it’s a bit warmer.
I use the deep litter method and do a full clean spring and fall, I give the floor and walls a good dusting with DE and following old farmers hints I paint the sides and bottom of all the perches with used motor oil, then the coop gets closed for the day to heat up and dry. I think I had mites once, the winter of my first year, before I did all the above and the girls had no access to dusting. Now they have frequent access to the nearby greenhouse in the winter and I’ve never had a problem since.

 

[The Lazy L]

If the rain is coming under your walls then in time the bottom of your walls will rot. Adding dirt against the wall outside or inside will help the walls rot sooner.

If the rain is entering through the crack in the concrete clean the crack and fill with high expansion foam.

As you suggested a gutter to redirect the rain away from the coop. Discharge in a rain barrel for watering the chickens? Barrel overflow as far away form the coop as practical.

Borrow, rent or purchase four hydraulic jacks (3 or 5 ton should do it). Dig under each coop corner to place a jack with some blocking. Slowly raise each corner a little at a time, going from corner to corner to corner to corner to corner...until you have the entire coop raised high enough to slide 4" x 8" x 16" solid cement construction block under the walls of the coop. Lower the coop. Now you have the coop 4" higher then what it was. Fill the inside of the coop with your choice of bedding (sand would be my choice). Outside use dirt from the top of the new blocks and slope away from the coop. You could use just one hydraulic jack, raise, block with scrap lumber, remove jack to new location and repeat. May sound harder then what it actual would be.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

If the rain is coming under your walls then in time the bottom of your walls will rot. Adding dirt against the wall outside or inside will help the walls rot sooner.

If the rain is entering through the crack in the concrete clean the crack and fill with high expansion foam.

As you suggested a gutter to redirect the rain away from the coop. Discharge in a rain barrel for watering the chickens? Barrel overflow as far away form the coop as practical.

Borrow, rent or purchase four hydraulic jacks (3 or 5 ton should do it). Dig under each coop corner to place a jack with some blocking. Slowly raise each corner a little at a time, going from corner to corner to corner to corner to corner...until you have the entire coop raised high enough to slide 4" x 8" x 16" solid cement construction block under the walls of the coop. Lower the coop. Now you have the coop 4" higher then what it was. Fill the inside of the coop with your choice of bedding (sand would be my choice). Outside use dirt from the top of the new blocks and slope away from the coop. You could use just one hydraulic jack, raise, block with scrap lumber, remove jack to new location and repeat. May sound harder then what it actual would be.

This sounds like a good idea, but if my coop is raised up, and i put bedding in there, there would be nothing to keep it from slipping out, and a predator could easily paw in.