What do you use for your tractor floor?

[Avonshire]

So my tractor is pretty big and heavy already. We can move it but it is hard. We are using pine pellets right now which I like except for the price. We change them out every two weeks and that is $12 every two weeks. If we used sand it would probably make it impossible to move with the weight of the sand. I don't know if shavings would be cheaper but I think we would have to change them out even more often because water does get into the coop--through all the ventilation that is necessary for our terrible heat! So what else is left? Maybe I don't have any choices???

 

[foulplay]

I have a chicken tractor and it has a ply wood floor that I clean out every morning after I let them out. I use a scraper and it works well if I get them out really early (5am) so they don't have time to walk on their drooping and pat them into a big mess on the floor. What do you do with all the pellets when you clean them out I just scrape my chicken manure out back door into hay field.

 

[Avonshire]

My tractor has a plywood floor covered in linoleum(to make it easier to clean) but I think it would be slippery if I did not put something down on it. We put the pellets out in the bushes at the edge of our property. I don't know how fast they will break down or disperse and had not thought of that problem yet--being overrun with pellets all along our property border! We tried to do poop boards but my chickens are not really roosting like they are suppose to and they only sit on one of the roosts that we have. They prefer to lay in the pellets. lol!

 

[suzyQlou]

I use a thin layer of pine shavings. It costs around $5 a bail, and lasts 6-8 weeks. I scoop only the dirty bits out from under the roost every morning. I mix the rest around, and replenish the amount I scooped with fresh shavings.

It sounds like your wet bedding might be what is causing you to change the bedding so often. Would you consider adding a bigger overhang to your roof? Or hinging your vent-covers up to act like a bit of a roof above the vents?