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« on: March 23, 2015, 01:37:18 pm » |
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I dont know anyone personally with wooden floors so I have questions because Im undecided. Do the dogs not get too hot in the Summer months? I wouldnt think the wood would stay cool for them. Ill start with that
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slimhogdog
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2015, 02:32:08 pm » |
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I dont know anyone personally with wooden floors so I have questions because Im undecided. Do the dogs not get too hot in the Summer months? I wouldnt think the wood would stay cool for them. Ill start with that
I've never had any issues with the floors getting to hot. My kennels are up off the ground and I've got deckboards as the floor so there is constant airflow. |
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skmarcus
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2015, 02:53:48 pm » |
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Thanks for the response. I figured that was the case since so many have and like the wood floors. Do you seal your floor to keep it from absorbing everything or what?
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ChanceandAnita
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2015, 03:08:05 pm » |
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I use a horse trailer mat screwed down to the wood with a small grade slope ,it has channels and the pee jus runs out the back, and I have gap on both sides of the floor to rake out the poop. Works great little smell
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2015, 12:01:08 am » |
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I like using the off the ground kennels coupled with regular dirt pens.
Winter is hard on dogs in the off the ground kennels. Summer is usually alright if they are located under sufficient shade trees.
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slimhogdog
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2015, 01:05:17 pm » |
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Thanks for the response. I figured that was the case since so many have and like the wood floors. Do you seal your floor to keep it from absorbing everything or what?
I waited about 6 months then sprayed some wood sealant on the deck boards. Like YBM said winter is a little tough on them but put up a windscreen and keep their kennels full of bedding. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2015, 01:24:42 pm » |
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I dont know anyone personally with wooden floors so I have questions because Im undecided. Do the dogs not get too hot in the Summer months? I wouldnt think the wood would stay cool for them. Ill start with that
I've never had any issues with the floors getting to hot. My kennels are up off the ground and I've got deckboards as the floor so there is constant airflow. mine are set up the exact same way. Its kinda wierd really, when I built em originally i took my dogs off of their chains and placed em in their own kennels......they hated em, im talkin these mutts were mopin around and you could just tell that they hated the kennels so I ended up putting em back on chains..........NOW I leave the door open to the kennels and my young pups that stay in the big puppy yard that the kennels are inside of LOVE the kennels, they hang out in em all the time..... dogs are strange  |
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2015, 10:58:22 pm » |
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Not sure if you had somethin like this in mind    I've had this set up for a couple years now . The only thing I could say bad about it is my dogs get calluses on the elbows after awhile , it doesn't effect their run tho .. It's just there. Also I don't know if it's related , but once I got them out of the dirt the fleas went away. Hope that helped some |
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« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2015, 06:00:39 am » |
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Not trying to hijack a post but as long as dogs are in dirt there's going to be fleas. Dirt dries the skin out so the dogs hair never gets oily. Dogs on a slab or in pens there hair doesn't get dry it starts getting oily and fleas can't stand oily hair.
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« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2015, 08:56:06 pm » |
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I have a few dogs on chains a few in wood kennels and a few on a slab. The treated wood kennels keep down the smell way better than the concrete. Wouldn't have thought that starting out but in my experience that's the case.
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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2015, 09:05:39 pm » |
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Not sure if you had somethin like this in mind I've had this set up for a couple years now . The only thing I could say bad about it is my dogs get calluses on the elbows after awhile , it doesn't effect their run tho .. It's just there. Also I don't know if it's related , but once I got them out of the dirt the fleas went away. Hope that helped some Whats the size of the kennel u got there. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2015, 10:05:35 pm » |
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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2015, 12:04:29 am » |
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 Here's the ones i used to have. I loved them more than the concrete i have now. Only reason i don't have them now is concrete is better for the property im on now. Only thing i didn't like about them is a dogs nails will grow very long on wood so you have to keep clipping them. And the water buckets would freeze in the winter even when the buckets on the ground wouldn't. Space the deck boards out just a little helps drainage. And i liked having kennel at waist height or higher off the ground. Helps them stay cool and keeps fleas down. But i really like them at waist height because its easier to work/treat dogs with injuries etc. |
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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2015, 06:44:28 am » |
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Everybody talks down on ply wood but I've had a chain link kennel on the same treated plywood floor since 2009 even moved it twice still solid and easy to clean
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