We've NEVER Built a Chicken Coop Like This Before!

[@CogHillFarm]

Feels good to get started on the coop!!!! Hope Y'all enjoy & Y'all be good!-Jason & Family

[@tammysarrazin7078]

i am in Canada and i love muscidine grapes kinfolk of Georgia sent me some juice from it yummmm

[@robertfirestone5743]

hay if you want a ez clean floor cheep vinyl floor poop and pee ez to get out put a long door on one side close to floor on hinges lift sweep out ez quick

[@teeweea5092]

I would put linoleum sheet on entire floor. Makes for easier cleaning later.about 4" high around the wall edges. Work smarter not harder. Hehe

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

Cog Hill Family Farm We put some vinyl down on the coop and we sure did like it! Made clean up super easy!

[@deblee4376]

I cackle every time I hear all the birds running to be fed.. What a joyful noise.. Jason, with all the little snippets that you run (and I Love), I thought you would have done The Grinch Who Stole Christmas's 'noise, noise, noise.. Lol I love the patience and compassion that all of you show for your animals, but I don't know how you keep up with all the names... Or, how you decide on the names.. MaryCarl does a Super Duper job.. I also, love your vast knowledge of music, Jason..

[@CogHillFarm]

Typically MC names everyone, & I cannot keep up with all their names except the ones that interact with me a lot on a daily basis LOL. Now she can tell you every single animal that has a name 😁

[@deblee4376]

Well, MC is one very smart and creative young lady. She has to be an inspiration to lots of young girls.. She makes me smile..

[@jennifergoodrich664]

We laid rubber mats over the solid floor...not the thickest, but not the thinnest. We love it. Makes coop cleanup easy peasy.

[@geraldinepetrou9699]

Mary Carl is one amazing little girl. I cannot get over all the knowledge in her young mind. God bless you all . You have a very amazing lovely family.

[@WelcometoChickenlandia]

Brekkie for dinner is the best

[@CogHillFarm]

Always!! 🥓

[@vmorganbogart]

The new coop looks like it’s gonna be fabulous. I like the idea of the vinyl flooring to make it easy to clean. I do foresee MC with more chickens in the future. I think she has Daddy wrapped around her little finger. But who could resist such a darling little girl?!?! Always enjoy your videos. Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸

[@audreyabdo7719]

Jason y’all got such a good team working together. Everybody is putting their ideas out there for their idea of a dream coop. I like Nancy Drew’s idea of the linoleum on the floor. Some girls love dolls and some girls adore chickens, especially rare breeds. I can’t wait to see how it’s going to be. Jason please don’t kill the muskidines. I love those, they grow in Macon Georgia.

[@pamt8430]

Your videos are always awesome. The birds running from all over for the produce was hilarious. JP is awesome!! Such a sweet bird. About the coop, we have a small coop with a vinyl floor that goes up the sides of the walls a few inches to keep the wood from warping. Easy clean up.

[@WelcometoChickenlandia]

That little chicken JP is EVERYTHING. I need one like that!

[@loriehabel1552]

Jason, I have a solid floor. Put deck oil on it to help with moisture. Didnt care for shaving, didnt care for dust shavings, but loving sand on the floor. Use a litter scoop to pick up the wet and boom Bob's your uncle,so much cleaner. Use a mix of DE and lyme on the floor too. Smells good in there and so much cleaner. Saves a tone on grit. Love me some twofers😊👍. Cant wait to see the build and the coop done for yall. I'm with lil Ms. MC are there ever enough chickens🥰. Yall have a wonderful labor day weekend. I'm sure peaches will keep yall in check

[@pamelarivers5665]

MC is just precious!

[@ichetuckneeoutfitters]

Breakfast for dinner is my favorite

[@TheChickenCoopHomestead]

We reclaimed boat trailer skids. Free from a place that replaces them. Some boards had a bad spot that we cut out and if it was really bad we just didn’t bring them home. We then stripped the carpet. They do have staples but we just flipped them to be the underneath side. All of them treated timber. We’ve done this twice now and built an extension for storage onto my greenhouse and the chicken coop. Love it. Our coop too was on a slope and water ran thru the coop. Yucky mess! No problems now!

[@BettenTheFarm]

I LOVE having breakfast for dinner! My coop has a dirt floor, but it's on a steep hillside so when it rains hard, it washes out a lot of the poop and stuff so I've really only got to clean/scrape off the roost bars. Works pretty good, but on the next coop, I'd like a floor just to reduce the mud. - Jenny

[@jimboholcomb1]

Peaches nickname should be "The Blister". Always showing up when the work is done!

[@CogHillFarm]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, that is perfect

[@lorisullivan327]

That’s hilarious

[@jeanettedickey6748]

Great job. See y'all Saturday.

[@elizabethranstrom6800]

Breakfast for dinner is always good!

[@PatricesProjects]

You should put a sheet of linoleum down on the floor so it is easier to keep clean. Then spray some water on it to see if there is a low spot and maybe put a drain so you can hose it out once in a while. Looking forward to seeing what this coop is going to look like.

[@henrymiller94]

My wife and I just bought a house on 11 acres of land in Wetumpka and we are using yall as our inspiration! Thanks for everything yall do!

[@CogHillFarm]

Y'all are so welcome & thank you guys so much!!

[@REB65]

👍👍 Y’all take care and God bless ✌️

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

[@jamesredden3270]

I love breakfast anytime day, evening, night it don't matter.

[@kentuckymotorsports9815]

Need longer vlogs

[@arccroses9061]

We are currently using a shed, that was built on our property before we bought it, as a coop and it has a plywood floor. It can be really messy to scrape and clean. I would definitely put something down under your bedding. We got to the point we are using the paper feed bags on the floor under the pine shavings. When we clean we can just roll them up and take it all to burn or compost. Eventually we want to build them a more open type of coop with a hardware cloth/mesh floor and use that shed as our goat milking/feed storage barn.

[@poloniarosacarrasquillo1496]

Great video as alway 😀 God bless you all 🌷 🌹 💞

[@arjaygee5034]

Now THAT is one big coup! With a floor that size, linoleum is a MUST if you want to clean it out. You might even want to put some drains in it in a few places so you can even hose it out if you need. Also, consider putting some kind of mesh block for the underside, keep away rats and snakes, among other varmints!

[@CogHillFarm]

Digging that drain idea!!! Thank you!

[@chelemichele1524]

MC really knows her chickens 🐥 Have a wonderful evening 🌻🌻🌻

[@goatsandyoga1135]

We have a solid floor in our coop and then we went down and got some heavy duty linoleum. I got an old-fashioned black and white checked pattern and when it's time to clean I just sweep the shavings out the door. Pretty and functional.

[@lisanowakow3688]

I would put a solid floor in, but I think I would put in cement so I could spray the floor off occasionally.

[@brookebrooks7920]

I love watching these videos.

[@judyreynolds305]

My she shed I turned into chicken coop!!lol! It is cement slab. I dumped 6 inch of sand in it and clean it with a long handle scoop, like a kitty. Litter box!! Easiest chicken house to keep clean ever! Had 20 chicken in there!

[@squirrelhillfarm9070]

Yep solid floor- 3/4 marine grade plywood. Suzanne painted it a wild blue color when we set it up. Easy to clean broom and scoop shovel. Throw down new shaving. Good for a few more months. Our birds go out in the morning and back at dark

[@appalachianmercantile]

I put a concrete floor in my coop. Best decision I made. It is much more sanitary and I can clean it in half the time! :)

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

After watching the 2nd chicken coop video in your series I had to hit that Subscribe button. Thanks for the laughs and the knowledge! Nice channel!

[@dreediv]

My suggestion is a rubber mat. I painted my floor with concrete Lyme for bugs followed by de and then the rubber mat then deep bed method through the winter. Then in spring roll it in 2 sections which is heavy and unroll it at the compost pile then I sweep it and start it over. This prevents bugs and rot.

[@breezewood4062]

To keep your floors longer, use vinyl or linoleum . easier clean up

[@juanitadafler7233]

I have a plywood floor on mine but also put down sheets of laminate so it is easier to clean and to protect the plywood.

[@kthearcher3357]

I don't know about the poud liners, but I do know chicken poop is hard on linoleum. We had it in our little backyard coop (think long doghouse, opened on the side). It was great while it held up for clean up, which we did daily, but after just a couple years it was coming up and peeling. Of course that was years ago know and I know we didn't buy a new piece, so it might have been an ancient piece from the garage. Anyhoo, thought I'd throw that nugget in. New coop area is looking good!!

[@lisaadkison8734]

Hello from Kentucky, i just love watching ya'll s channel !!

[@phillipchronister1094]

I have a plywood floor and I put a pond liner down I stapled it to the floor then put my hay down! Makes cleaning a breeze and protects my floor.

[@CogHillFarm]

awesome idea & thanks for sharing!!!

[@gelwood99]

unless you got it on clearance, it would cost much more than a salvage piece linoleum.

[@JerryGDawg56]

Cog squad!!! Woot woot woot woot!!! 😃

[@CogHillFarm]

👊👊✊✊👍👍😁😁

[@karenlassalle4880]

Daddy I wanna show Mama this baby chick..Well but Mama we don't have this breed..That lil sister makes me smile..:)

[@ze-xi8rf]

Chicken Coop Flooring - Linoleum on the floor if you can do it in one piece and maybe run the Linoleum (or tin) on up the walls a bit. I'm thinking that after you push the bedding out with a broom, you could take a water hose and spray it clean. I would not recommend the linoleum squares which is what we used in the small coop we built. Squares did make it easy to sweep out, but you can't be spraying it down with water. As big as your coop is, that much Linoleum may cost $$$.

[@hardymarshfarm7843]

our coop is solid floor, we do the deep letter and clean out a few times a year, which goes into the garden. I use shredded paper from work. all paper must be shredded into 1/8 x 1x8 ver fine shred. anyway, that's what we do, we live in the midlands of SC so don't forget the ventilation in the coop, it gets hot. looks like a good layout, can't wait to see the finished build.

[@KinfolkFarmofGeorgia]

Dang I'm 3 videos behind. Check out isons nursery on youtube. It's where we buy all our muscadines plants from. They are the largest muscadine growers in Georgia.

[@HomsteadingThePioneerWay]

LOVE your channel, and muskadine jelly is my favorite, i have no floor in coop, and yes eat breakfast anytime

[@bettybay2181]

All the people here are my kind of people !!!

[@brucerazor5202]

Thank you for making my life better 😃

[@0Hillbilly]

Breakfast for supper is my favorite.

[@chrislittebrant5235]

Y’all crack me up. If we had a tractor, I’d want to be on it too. I love watching Mrs. Cog Hill work on that tractor, Lucky bum. We have breakfast for dinner often, yumm. Y’all take care and God Bless. Chris-Raleigh NC

[@ReapWhatYouSeauxLeJeune]

My coop is a solid floor and I put DE & lime down.. Works great I have no smell in my coop and easy to keep clean with solid floor. I scoop & rake it out.... one more thing “y’all let that baby have more chickens “!!! 😁 God Bless!!

[@PfeilerFamilyFarm]

Musgadines (sp) are good grapes. A friend of mine introduced them to me when we were living in NC. Funny you post this video because I have to enlarge our coop now. We have 24 layers, 29 new growing pullets and now for some reason I am gaining chickens because they just don't want them. We were given a Barred Rock and two Buff Orphingtons today, oh yeah then my Bantams have been broody for the past month, so we have two chicks that hatched today and there is a ton of eggs that are due to hatch anytime! We have gone full blown cluckin crazy here! Have a great weekend Cog Hill family!

[@peewees6199]

Put you some linolium tile down on the floor...it makes the floor easier to clean and last longer. You know that stuff that comes in rolls. God bless!

[@karla.30]

Do a concreter floor ...I LOVE ours!

[@derekfitzpatrick4249]

The pro of haveing a floor on a chicken coop one is chicken/and other birds are More protected from weather.. I would like recommend putting tarps on bottom for easy cleanup and have wood shavings on top of the tarps..

[@dawncooper4739]

We have 3/4 cement floor with the last 1/4 dirt and small river rock. We put pine shavings on the cement. I can rinse the whole thing out and it drains. We also put in a chicken "litterbox" with sand in it under the roost. Makes for super easy & fast clean up. MC needs just a few more chicks.😁

[@PaulaJoDavis]

I just LOVE those concrete footers for bracing the 2 bys. They work SO well for building AND for raised bed gardening. Keeps your wood up off the ground and in turn, helps wood last longer. Great choice, Cog Hill! Blessings from NE Missouri!

[@CogHillFarm]

When I used them for the 1st goat house a few years ago, I totally fell I love with those footers!

[@PaulaJoDavis]

@@CogHillFarm They are the bomb! Quick, efficient and cost effective. I love them!

[@DonnaRatliff1]

Our coop is Inside an area of our barn. And yes we did do a solid floor too. On the ground It's pallets with Pressure treated plywood over them but I covered it with overlapping feed bags . I put lots of layers of those then a final covering of 9 mil black plastic that goes up the sides of the walls a bit. It's easy to sweep out using a plastic snow shovel. I then usually run a fan to dry the floor for a minutes before adding bedding/ wood chips and straw. I also covered the walls with those overlapping feed bags too. The walls go up to about 8 foot enclosed but go higher to ceiling with chicken wire to the top to encage the whole area. It's preditor proof. Then on the outside there's an enclosed run from top to bottom where its cemented in chicken wire 6 inches into the soil. I save all my feed bags because I use them for lots of things. Even stapled on in the inside of my barn walls to keep the wind out. So anyway, this what we've done for a permanent chicken/ duck house. I'm sure yours will be just great too. 👍😄

[@DonnaRatliff1]

Yep, I put down DE with my bedding too.

[@michellekyle4653]

We just picked 5 gallons of purple muscadines. I am canning juice and jelly. Trust me when I say Yes, we have breakfast many nights for dinner. Love y'all's videos. The Kyles from Tunnel Hill Ga.

[@audreyabdo7719]

Michelle Kyle , that sounds so yummy. I was born and raised in Macon, Georgia and you could find them and the wild plums every where. Growth and modernization has had in many cases a negative effect on what was natural. I would get in trouble eating wild fruits instead of candy bars.

[@brittanywith_]

Heck yeah breakfast for dinner 😋

[@CogHillFarm]

It never says NO :)

[@ChefJimmyJ]

You are off to a good start. We converted a wooden shed to a coop. The plywood floor and a couple of feet up the walls was coated with Black Jack Rubber Sealer #57. Then painted over with exterior white latex. The whole deal is completely water proof. The pine bedding and Sweet PDZ is easily swept out...JJ

[@gailreese4699]

When you asked her if she new how to back a truck up I could just see her back handing you. LOl LOl . Quir bragging about the grapes I already told you It made me cry when i see them LOl LOl

[@gkevineady49]

1/4 inch hardware cloth floor, and then put straw on it to make it smoother. Make the door so you can rake straw out easily.

[@pat_in_va8605]

My "This is what I want to build" Coop will be a floored coop and I plan on using something like linoleum, congoleum, some type of flooring to make it easier to clean. Keep an eye out on Facebook Market or Craig's list as a source for it, perhaps?

[@jamesmorrow8061]

Jim from Scotland...sure do like your video's...puts a wee smile on my face.untill the next one y,all... as we say in Scotland Haste ye back ..

[@wendyc.5769]

James Morrow Haste ye back my friend !!! Tally Ho and carry on 👍😇

[@mycelticstardust]

I spit coffee all over the kitchen watching you steppin off the measurement you had in mind, my Dad did that too, and recently my husband caught me doing the same thing and he said we have a tool for that, and I said don't need it steppin is acurate enough its a southern thing!

[@CogHillFarm]

LOLOL!! exactly...no need for a measuring tape

[@amandaforeman703]

Oh boy! A bigger coup! I bet mc loves her new chicks! She’s such a great helper! Jp is precious ! Peaches is the absolute best!

[@CogHillFarm]

:) Thanks Amanda

[@wcombs1983]

Hi Jason. We have a solid floor in our coop, but we cut a clean out door in the side to make cleaning easier. We also put down cheap linoleum that can be replaced when (if) it gets worn. Love the channel!

[@CogHillFarm]

Awesome & thanks!!!!

[@joyce7767]

I've heard that if you put down linoleum it makes cleaning way easier. I have a solid floor in my coop, but It's small, only have 9 chickens and I use builders sand and clean it each day like a large kitty liter pan, works good for small coops and only take a minute each day.

[@martincolley5371]

One has a solid floor thats covered in vinyl flooring bought off the discount rack , it makes it so much easier to clean, the other coop has a floor made from 5/4 decking boards with a 1/2" gap between each row.

[@squirrelhillfarm9070]

Btw I used a lattice panels and skirted our hen house to keep hens from going under it.

[@CogHillFarm]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@rosejafari8917]

I just put some dirt on the floor and it helps control the odor, dry up the poop and rake it out easily.

[@trunativerootsfarm4922]

We watch Appalachian's Homestead with Patra and she uses the role of lanolium on her floor check her out. Love your videos and love seeing Marycarol with her precious chickens.

[@CogHillFarm]

Thanks!

[@midsouthhomestead9180]

We have a solid wood floor. We like the deep compost method to use in our garden. Yes. breakfast for dinner is great!

[@breauxfarmsla]

WE JUST STARTED A BATCH OF MUSCADINE WINE.. CANT WAIT UNTILL ITS DONE

[@CogHillFarm]

BOOOOOOM!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cristianacevedo8925]

Use wire hardware cloth as the floor that way everything can just fall to ground

[@wamplertube]

Wow! Your farm and your channel have come such a long way in the last couple years! Absolutely astonishing! Best of luck to you!

[@CogHillFarm]

Thanks Dylan...I think I have actually found my groove, & what I really love creating 👍👍👍

[@tracycollins5272]

MC is great with chickens! I haven’t ever been able to get within 10 ft of a new Momma hen

[@MatthewCKirschner]

I have a solid floor coop with garage floor paint. The paint made the difference with the floor drains. I go in and pressure wash it, throw in new pine chips. Glue and screw the plywood.

[@CogHillFarm]

Awesome!!!! TFS!

[@bessiebrooks7353]

Love breakfast for dinner.

[@robinmiller1783]

Bfast for bfast, bfast for lunch, bfast for dinner and bfast for late night snack!!!! Oh ya.

[@colmcummings7393]

Concrete flooring is the best job when it comes to flooring.. specially large coops...timber is no problem to rates etc etc... stabilization wash is most important once a year...lime wash perfect job in coops... keeping poultry all my life.anyway good luck

[@SunnySlopeHomestead]

I’ve been home sick for two days so I’ve been catching up on my KZbin , thanks Jason for the new video 👍✊

[@CogHillFarm]

Feel better soon buddy!

[@wayneshirey6999]

I love breakfast for SUPPER.

[@imogenethomas1138]

Muscadines make the best jelly ever! Perfect with breakfast for supper.

[@charlottehughes4221]

Yes, my husband's favorite jelly!

[@rosejafari8917]

Make a hull pie after making jelly and jam. It taste similar to cherry but better.

[@mercswifejl]

Love you guys!!

[@ceepark114]

Mary Carl loves her chickens. Your grape Vines look great. My coop is very small, around 6x8, I laid down vinyl squares. Next time I would lay down sheet vinyl because the squares are coming up in places that I snagged with the shovel when cleaning.

[@jackywaldon359]

Jason from Cog Hill Farm. I've been missing some of these videos I'm trying to play catch-up now.

[@CogHillFarm]

Thanks Jacky!!! I noticed you hadn’t commented lately, hope all is well.

[@angelicatitus]

I soooo loved this video. Thanks! ❤️

[@HeyHeyAlabama]

Y'all are getting a complete farm make over. Looking good.

[@CogHillFarm]

Thx!

[@polkcellar]

Have you looked into the deep litter system for chickens? No odor. Easy to maintain and sanitary. Check out you tube for info. Love your programming.

[@kellygreen8255]

Fabulous music at the end! Love it! XXOO to MC.

[@sararich957]

Jason we at the time lived in Pell city ala and we lived a block from my high school.i remember there was a wild muscatine vine growing up on the side of the walk way and my dad (deceased now) would pick muscadines and make musadine wine. You wait till they turn blue to eat them otherwise if you eat green you'd better be close to a bathroom lol.

[@emmadalrymple4102]

With everyone coming down the road when you returned with the produce, it looked like the doors to Noah's ark had opened up, lol. Love your videos. The animal names crack me up. Rod Stewart was a great one!

[@nancydrew6010]

I am no expert, far from it but in my coop I have put linoleum under the perches and it makes it so much easier to clean

[@CogHillFarm]

Thanks!! And we have been actually discussing just that, & glad you shared this!

[@ceepark114]

I did this also, makes it so slick to clean!

[@Ourlittlefunnyfarm]

We did it in ours too. One of the best things we’ve done, clean up takes minutes a day (only nine chickens in our coop)

[@tracyreed8766]

That is a brilliant idea!!

[@wendyc.5769]

CONGOLEUM!!!! LONG LIVE CONGOLEUM👍🤣🤭😁

[@Lucas_Terry]

I'd seal the plywood with something to make clean out easier mine is cute concrete with slight slope so I can just spray it down to the end the load it in the tractor bucket several things you could seal it with but I'd personally use something self leveling sure you'll get mixed comments

[@lbsmith83]

Coop is going to be nice. Oh I got my second t-shirt from your farm and I love them. In my coop we have a solid sheeting board and saw dust. To clean it shovel it into the bucket on the tractor. Dance more!!!!! Love your channel

[@CogHillFarm]

Thanks Lynn!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@austintoboston]

We started using Bark Mulch after trying other things and its amazing. The chickens turn it over and it stays fresh as can be. It then degrades and just needs yearly refreshing. Stays dry feeling too!

[@annparam]

We used plywood and we got Redgard and waterproofed the floor!

[@RockingCHomestead]

We have a floor in our chicken coops. It is not solid, but the joints are super tight. We like it a lot, but it does take a little bit more cleaning and scraping up of some of the poop! I would like to come across some super cheep vinyl floor sheeting and cover the entire floor. That would make it clean up super easy I think.