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My ducks are currently house in a 10x10 dog kennel with solid concrete floor that has been sealed with epoxy. They have a solid wood boxed house raised off the floor with a ramp. We will also be enclosing the bottom as well to add another spot for them to go in. This will be my first time having...

Hi all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I recently got 3 almost 1 y/o (44 weeks I believe) Golden Comet hens that seem to refuse the higher roost ladder that I bought them. They used the ones that came with the pre-fab coop but they're only about an inch off the ground and a couple of the...

Built a coop with hardware cloth floor, which has worked well keeping snakes and those sorts out. But this year is our first we've been overrun by rats. Tried the bucket, and poison (in protected bait stations), both to no avail. They won't go up on bucket, and they aren't eating bait. I even...

For the past few weeks several of my chickens have been molting, they're on the tail-end of the molt but there is one issue. Most of the molting chickens aren't roosting anymore. Some sleep in the nest boxes while a bunch sleep on the coop floor. This has been a pain because the coop is much...

Hi! 3 out of the 6eggs i tried to let poultry supply incubate hatched May 16/17. This is my second time to raise baby chicks without the hen. My brooder space is quite big but they are only 3. It is about a 2ft x 2ft dimension. I have used 25watts light bulb for there heat source placed in the...

I’m looking for some options for flooring in all my coops. I had to tear out the previous flooring because of my flock having a disease. I have coops that are raised from the ground, so cement and dirt wouldn’t work. Any ideas or options would be big help! As from the run area, what’s the best...

Hello, I am a poultry superintendent for a 4-H fair. Currently, most of our barn are large hanging cages, 92 total attached, half on either side facing out, and half on top and half on bottom. Currently the bottom cages are just open to the floor, while the top cages have a piece of metal as a...

I have 5 hens ages ranging from 8-14 weeks. They’re all great at taking themselves into the coop at night but won’t sleep on the roosting bars. There’s two bars in the coop so space isn’t an issue and I’ve noticed them jumping up and sitting on there in the daytime so they can get up there with...

I have a large (12x20) coop for my hens. They free range during the day (mostly unless we've seen a predator or I've got maintenance work going on). But we've got rats in the coop and I've got to keep them out! They're digging under the wire barriers and just being a nuisance. So I've...

I'm after some comments on brooder flooring. I'm using puppy pads with paper towels on top but in a few days i need to upgrade. I have tried straw/hay not a big fan of this but i have seen hay cut up into tiny pieces, that maybe an option. I have also tried fine and chunky sawdust, not a big...

Im looking to add better sand/dirt to my girls coop (around at least half of it to be exact) . I do have a few things though, it has to be something that wont get damaged by rain or become icky (the coop is opened all around so water gets in very easily) . I would like something that wont harm...

Hi! I’ve had chickens for 3.5 years. My first flock of 9 were all killed by a neighbor dog back in Feb this year. Have a new mixed flock of 10.5 week olds. I read somewhere at the beginning of my chickenkeeping journey that dry leaves on a dirt run mimick the forest floor, the natural habitat...

Good Morning to all! I have recently acquired about 600sqft of ceramic tile from a free roadside pick up (Shhhhh ... don't tell my husband yet lol). I'd like to lay the tile in the floor of the coop, but coming up empty on which type of grout to use. I definitely do not want to use a standard...

Hi everyone. I'm new to chicken keeping, we just got a flock of chicks a week ago but I've been reading and studying chickens for months in preparation. The house we bought recently had a chicken coop with it. It's all wood and needs some improvements. I wanted to seal the floor and the...

We are getting ducklings on Tuesday and I am building them a run as they grow indoors (too cold outside for ducklings right now). I have seen a few posts on here about run flooring choices, but nothing has shown me what would be ideal exactly. I've heard: Non slip Anti Fatigue mats (with...

Hi everyone, well I finally got a fertile egg, after trying for awhile, and the next day (monday), my blue silkie, Pong, went broody. Tuesday she was sitting on 3 eggs, and my white silkie laid her egg in the corner, so I put it under Pong. Today, when I went to let them out, there was an egg...

OK, so if you would please clear up my confusion. I have 15 7 month old pullets. I'm preparing to winterize and my concern is about the floor of the run. It's a 12 x 14 covered roof run with a dirt floor. Every night we go out and scrape up the poo from the floor of the run. I'm thinking...

I have a Silkie who has been laying for a couple of weeks, but she won't use a nest box. She prefers to lay on the floor in the corner by all the poo. I have tried the fake egg / golf ball, I even put her eggs in there. I have built a poo shelf, something to keep poo off of the floor there in...

My hen and her new chicks don't like to go into the coop at night. The last 2 nights I have picked chicks and mum up from the floor of the run and had to put them into there coop, much to mum's annoyance, and a great deal of pecking. The coop has a gentle sloop to about 8 inch off the ground...

Hi! We are in the process of completing a new coop for our chickens. One of the concerns I have is the floor. It is currently plywood and I know that isn't going to be fun to clean! I was thinking about using linolium, but I am concerned that it might be too slippery for the chickens if the...