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I use plastic boot trays without sand on them. Every morning, I just take the trays out to the composter, dump/scrape out the contents, hose them off, then replace. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes.
You lost me at dump/scrape and hose off
BTW, our Round Roof Chicken Coop will be ready for pick-up the week of Feb. 6.
Ok, I've read through 5 pages of this post and haven't seen my question answered yet, so I'll go ahead and ask it! lol Do you ever have a problem with chickens sleeping IN the poop board? When we moved in, our coop didn't even really have rooting poles - it just had shelves that the chickens would lay on. One of them decided to start laying eggs on the shelves (NO IDEA why) and it would fall off and break. Even after we put roosting poles over the shelves, she continued to lay there until we cut the shelves so narrow that there wasn't space for her to lay anymore. I'd LOVE to widen the shelves and do this, but I'd be afraid we'd get layers in there again.
Love your coop and the roost and poop tray with the magic powder! Am using a ladder type roost with hinges and boot trays underneath, but this looks even better, and would save space. Also, the top rung, the favorite, in my coop is too close to the wall and there are distressing soil marks....can't wait to get in there with a scrub brush. My poor husband may not be in favor of this redo...but I think it may have to happen. Thank you!
. Trish, I absolutely love your whole 5 pages of PDZ info! I do have one teeny, tiny question: please compare PDZ to DE that I have been using in wet spots. I want to switch to granular PDA because of the powder-in-lungs issue. Will I be happy with PDZ? Both are the same price here, 40# for $14 and granular or powder. Chime in all, please? We are in the cold country where poo does freeze, but this is ok if the amonia remains in the pitched out chunks. Thank you all.