Raising Chickens On Wire Floors

When folks who raise chickens get together at social functions it isn t long before the chicken stories enter the conversation.

Raising chickens on wire floors. If your chicken run hasn t been completed i d suggest trenching a foot into the ground around the run and and then burying your fence about a foot down into your soil. The worst thing to do is to raise baby chicks on the pine shavings that come in a bag. Why wire floors are not ideal for your chickens. Our chickens are used to the balance of aged and old farm compost in the coops and runs.

Wire on the floor with adult chickens by. Here s a beginner s guide to raising chickens in your backyard. Half an hour to figure out. Getting the best coop to keep your flock happy and safe is a daunting task with so many options.

You definitely don t want your chickens living on a wire floor in cold or wet weather. Otherwise fill your coop floor with chicken wire or some small hole fencing you can buy at your local co op store. But adult birds are relatively heavy and wire is hard on their feet. I they are not elderly.

Wire floors on the ground allow too much moisture to raise into. They will dig down to your wire. Use chicken wire when i make the sand cement screeds low thickness use chicken wire when i put on heavy material type stone wall staring at the wall with a drill and dowels. What flooring not to use wire coop flooring is bad for a few reasons.

I do not recommend you use wire floors. Make sure that the wire the ducks will be on is small enough so they cant get their feet through. Contact backyard chicken coops today to learn more about adding wire mesh flooring to your chicken coop at. It can seem attractive because it lets droppings pass right through.

I brood mine on wire. I use 1 4 hardware cloth pretty sure its coated and have never had a problem. Our poultry is of sound and healthy stock due to the healthy living conditions that our chickens are exposed to each and every day. Wire mesh flooring is indeed an egg cellent idea.

Submitted by thomas lee wenzler on january 23 2019 10 44pm. To build or to buy. Despite the benefits of a wire floor chickens don t thrive on them. Brenda your plan is to cover that wire flooring with something but chickens do like to scratch and dig.

Essentially chickens need solid flooring with some traction ideally with access to the ground so they can forage. I also put the adults in wire breeding pens in the spring.