Flooring for poultry pen

A flooring for supporting birds in a poultry pen comprising a rigid subfloor providing sufficient strength to support a person standing thereon, said subfloor comprising a grid defined by a first plurality of generally parallel strip members and a second plurality of generally parallel strip members arranged to cross the first plurality at an angle thereto so as to define open spaces between said first and second plurality of strip members of a size sufficiently large to allow waste material to fall therethrough, and sufficiently small to allow a foot of a person to span from one strip member to a next adjacent without falling therethrough, a flexible perforated floor arranged to extend across said subfloor, and a plurality of spaced substantially vertical strut means extending between said strip members of said grid and said flexible perforated floor for supporting said flexible floor at a position spaced above said subfloor, said strut means being sufficiently rigid to appear to a bird as a rigid projection and sufficiently flexible to collapse when compressed by the foot of a person, said strut means and said strip members being spaced to define above each open space in the grid a portion of said flexible floor which can flex when receiving a bird resting thereon the curve around the bird.