Chicken huts

[Suechooks]

Don't let them eat bindweed!! It's poisonous to chooks

Good job they ignore it then as my lottie is over-run with it! I get a barrow load of root per square yard every time I dig it over! Vile stuff!

[mcreek]

I built the one from photo's that T Peers put on here and it is great the only thing I had trouble with was the doors. I but the perch about 5 inches high between the door and the nest box

I've missed out the side door, I've just made the big back door for cleaning and the nestbox door. I've put the poop hole at the front too, instead of underneath, and the nest boxes aren't in a separate 'room' they are more like covered boxes which is why I had to change where I put the roost, hence the confusion of where to put it!

I've got half a tin of Cuprinol left in Sage Green, so that'll be the colour now I know it's ok with chicks.

I like brown hens too, but it really isn't worth the agro with an 11 year old whose getting hormones!!

[frias]

I use vinyl on the floor and find it's great as it can be lifted out and scrubbed. I put red mite powder under it.

[Flummery]

I use vinyl on the floor and find it's great as it can be lifted out and scrubbed. I put red mite powder under it.

Me too. Red Mite powder under it and on it - with Easibed on that. So far so good!

[tlck9]

these are interesting comments, I have a bought arc, and a wooden floor, and currently lay paper down with bedding on top, cleaned everyday of poop, but only completely once a week.

I am looking for something to place on the floor, especially in the winter when it will get wetter, with chucks coming in and out....

any other suggestions for the flooring, thats easy to remove, clean and reinstall

(my partner has around 20 square vinyl tiles...I dont suppose they would work unless I placed them on a backing and stuck them down with something waterproof????? then red mited

how often do you red mite your vinyl, picked up some natural redmite dust that can be used on chicks and on thehousing, one puff apparently

[MaureenHall]

I've got vinyl tiles down in the big coop. Easy to sweep out and wash down, then when it's dry, plenty of red-mite stuff before putting in the Hemcore. the girls seem happy enough. Oh yes, I've also got the whole of the inside of the coop gloss painted so that's easy to hose down regularly and scrub out when it needs it

[Hilary B]

If you use a waterproof 'liner' to the floor, make sure there is enough ventilation UNDER the floor so that it isn't retaining dampness, otherwise you may need a replacement floor in a year or less.
No waterproofing 'finish' on a floor remains totally water-proof in the long term. Some water always gets into the substance of the floor (wood of some kind I assume) sooner or later. It needs to be able to get out again, or the wood will rot.