Official BYC Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Coop?

[BantyChooks]

It's not a pleasant part of keeping chickens, but it's one we must all deal with regardless: poop. How often do you clean your coop out? Don't include pens in your answer, just your coop or coops. Do you find it easy or difficult to clean them out? What changes to your coop design or technique would you make to improve the process?

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[DobieLover]

I clean out the coop once a year. Whether it needs it or not!
The poop boards are cleaned every morning. The floor of my coop gets very little poop in the bedding as the birds go out to the run as soon as they come off the roost and wait there for me to release them.
When winter really bears down, they will spend more time hunkered down in the bedding of the coop.

I'll be doing a cleaning next month. It'll get hit with a spray down of Elector PSP when I've emptied it and before I bed it down.

 

[Skyle]

Since the number of the chickens I have varies a lot I don't have a fixed timeframe. It can vary from once a week to everyday, basing on how many chickens there are. I simply go there and see (and sniff, too); if the bedding looks dirty I remove the dirty parts and put there fresh bedding. Also, when I clean the coop I scoop out the poops from the sand in the run.

 

[dawg53]

I clean my 4 coops early each morning. What makes easy cleaning is sand. Simply scoop the poop and put it in a bucket and dispose of it. Done.
Other than building coops to withstand strong storms including cat 1 hurricanes, ease of cleaning coops was a priority. It takes me about 30 minutes to clean out coops each morning.

 

[3KillerBs]

Every 6-12 weeks currently -- depending on weather and other factors (article here).

The new Open Air coop may need it less often because I may be able to use Deep Litter instead of Deep Bedding.

 

[CHlCKEN]

I shockingly enjoy cleaning out the coop. Typically once a week or every other week.

 

[chickentrains]

every 6 months or so .

 

[EverythingDucks]

Do you mean just tidying up and cleaning areas with lots of poop, or like a deep cleaning?

 

[Lemon-Drop]

I clean mine 2-3 times a year. I’d like to start cleaning it more though. I clean it with my sister so I don’t actually mind doing it that much. We have 7 hens in the 40sq ft coop.

 

[Meri Maura]

Deep clean every 3-4 weeks