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Click on My Coop, in blue, to the left of here.... My nest boxes and storage are outside the coop..... The eggs are inside the lower right door.... My 2 poop boards are pretty high up.... the ramps are steep..... the chickens hesitated to use the ramps and when they did, they slid on the...

morning.... I found I had to install extra cleats on the ramps... they are now 4" spacing... the chickens are much more secure with the extra cleats....

My poop board is about 4" above the PDZ.... Keeps eggs from breaking too, in the event of an "accident".... like "laying an egg" in the taxi on the way to the birthing clinic... ....... ....

My chickens have no trouble navigating these steep ramps.... I put scratch on the ramps, and they ate their way to the top.....

Is that a salt block or what in the coop.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/780323/cleaning-my-coop-video here's a good video....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=sweet+pdz&=Search It absorbs ammonia and clumps and makes clean up easy....

Someone mentioned, somewhere, that their roosting board was 2-3" above the poop board..... that was so eggs laid while on the roost would not break... food for thought.... don't know if chickens lay while on the roost..... I'm new at this...... Dave

On another thread, I can't remember which one, some suggested increased air circulation in the coop, will reduce the humidity and put an end to frozen clumps of "stuff"....

Here are a bunch of pictures........ https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=roosts&type=61

Farm and Ranch has PDZ..

Those are cedar 2x4's old and dry.... All the volatile oils are gone......

Very nice arrangement..... everyone looks happy....

One more thing to add to my "Stuff I learned here"....... Thank you much....

I didn't know chickens could stand the cold AND get frost bite.... one of the hundreds of things I learned here... by next month it will be in the thousands.... I keep reading Sally Sunshine threads and learn stuff too..... plenty of smart folks around this place I tell ya.....

That says it better than I can..... https://www.google.com/#q=sweet+pdz+for+chickens

Alaskan, morning..... and thanks for the compliments.... I have been looking at more air venting.... The roof is totally open where it sits on the walls... 2 3/4" gap under the perlins for 24' around the walls.... about 5.5 sq. ft. ... Working inside the coop is very breezy.... I'm...

Thank you all, for the ideas..... I been hanging around for awhile... building a folder of many ideas and reading, reading and reading.... Here is my final poop board and roost design that I built yesterday.... It high up off the floor, 48", so the birds get exercise flying up to...