TamaNicole
Chirping
- Jan 3, 2022
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Thanks so much!Welcome to BYC.
This is my article on Deep Bedding: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/using-deep-bedding-in-a-small-coop.76343/
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Thanks so much!Welcome to BYC.
This is my article on Deep Bedding: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/using-deep-bedding-in-a-small-coop.76343/
We use the deep litter method, using straw and the floor covering. It starts out at about 6 inches deep and in a year is about a foot deep. The Hen house smells great (just like chickens, not their poop). I clean off the roost bars every morning while looking for eggs. Well I used to before that dang bobcat ate my flock and left me the one shell-shocked (non-laying) henIt'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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This is really helpful! What kind of plastic liner do you use? Are you talking plastic tarps?
Recently advised to use horse barn mats. I'm not familiar with them but I don't imagine they can be rolled up easily?
Ducks need it to be cleaned more often i think. They are messy birdiesDo you mean just tidying up and cleaning areas with lots of poop, or like a deep cleaning?
Our Winter temps range from 45° to -15° with high humidity here in Southern Ohio. I have sand in the coop, run, and nestboxes. The girls have plenty of roosts, but sometimes choose to just park it right in the sand. They still dustbathe in both the coop and the run and don’t seem to mind the sand in the nestboxes. I do have two seedling mats that I have put under a layer of sand. The heating mats keep the sand in the nestboxes slightly warmer so the eggs don’t freeze.I’ve been thinking of switching to sand but worried about losing the warmth factor from the pine shavings. I live in KS. Thoughts?
Try a plastic pond liner! You can cut it to fit and they’re inexpensive.This is really helpful! What kind of plastic liner do you use? Are you talking plastic tarps?
Recently advised to use horse barn mats. I'm not familiar with them but I don't imagine they can be rolled up easily?
Same here. A good thorough cleanout quarterly and poop board cleaning and nest box refreshing often.I do a deep cleaning with the change in seasons so 3-4 times a year. I have poop boards though that I scoop 2-3 times a week as it just takes 5 minutes.
What is elector psp?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.View attachment 2583454
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.