Justin RhodesAbundant Permaculture, LLC · Boss

Don't put floors in your chicken coop!

Name: Don't put floors in your chicken coop!
Uploaded: 2024-12-05T01:10:05+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: In this solo YouTube monologue, the speaker argues that solid floors are unnecessary and even counterproductive in chicken coops. He likens chickens to…

5 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this solo YouTube monologue, the speaker argues that solid floors are unnecessary and even counterproductive in chicken coops. He likens chickens to toddlers who will constantly soil their environment, emphasizing that unlike humans, chickens have no way to keep clean. The speaker recommends using slatted flooring or wire mesh with about a one‑inch gap so that manure can fall through, or eliminating a floor entirely as in a chicken‑tractor setup. By avoiding solid floors, coop owners can reduce cleaning effort and improve manure management.

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Floors. Overrated in the chicken coop. Promise me you aren't going to do floors. I get why you would want and think you would need to do floors for your chickens. After all, you have floors in your house. Chickens are not you. Chickens are more like your toddler. They're gonna poop all over the place and definitely not pick it up after themselves. If, uh, you know, your toddler didn't have a diaper. Chickens don't have diapers. Or do they? Chickens literally have nothing to do but to poop, scratch, and peck. A better floor would be a slatted floor, 1 inch in between, or a wire mesh with 1 inch in between so that manure can fall through. Leave that behind. Or how about no floors at all, like in my chicken tractor? Let's rethink everything and let's start with floors. Do we really need them in their chicken coop? No. Without floors We don't have to clean up that poop, and that poop is nasty.