Poop board with or without lip?

[JacobMaxwell]

I have some removable poop boards without a lip. I find it's pretty easy to scrape the poop into a bucket each morning.




The boards are removable with hook arrangement.

 

[WNCcluck]

We don't use a poop board at all. The floor of our coop is covered in vinyl upon which we've loaded a mixture of sand and PDZ. Clean up is a breeze with a telescoping rake and a kitty litter scoop. We do have 2x2's at the pop door and coop door to keep the mixture from being kicked out.

Is the sweet pdz/sand mixture really that good? What's the litter look like under the roost? I was hoping to clean the coop maybe 1 or 2 times a week. I figured a poop board was a sure way to do this.

It's better than that good! The PDZ is a dessicant, so it tends to clump the poop into little poop pellets. It also keeps the sand from clumping. We have eight girls in our 8x6 coop and can clean the coop in a snap.

 

[Mahlzeit]

I have some removable poop boards without a lip. I find it's pretty easy to scrape the poop into a bucket each morning.




The boards are removable with hook arrangement.

That's a fancy little design. I like it.

 

[Brookliner]

I use poop trays built in under all my roosts. The best thing about using the PDZ as a scoopable litter is that it is a natural mineral Zoelyte that absorbes ammonia...which is the ingredient that creates the smell in chicken coops. Below you can see my roosts and poop trays. The roosts are aprox. 5" above the poop tray. I scoop the poop into a bucket daily it takes 5 minutes for my 8'x8 coop. My coop has no ammonia smell. .

 

[kmartinez]

what is Corn, stable-dri I tried to google it came up with nothing.

 

[rjackh]

what is Corn, stable-dri I tried to google it came up with nothing.

http://www.drystall.com/
http://www.sweetpdz.com/

 

[TalkALittle]

I use a poop board with no lip. I cover it with a light dusting of sand, scrape any poop into a bucket each morning and re-dust it with more sand. I have a couple of girls that tried using it as a dust bathing area when I kept the sand deeper so I removed the lip.

 

[rjackh]

I built mine with a lip, contains about 3/4" of sand/sweet pdz. Gets sifted with a cat litter scoop a couple times a week, no smell at all.

 

[JacobMaxwell]

I personally think that a poop board with or without a lip doesn't matter to much. It's just personal preference and what works best in a particular situation.

 

[lynnehd]

I personally think that a poop board with or without a lip doesn't matter to much. It's just personal preference and what works best in a particular situation.

Yes, but it sure is fun to talk about in glorious detail! Especially for a newbie like me.

I use a poop board with no lip. I cover it with a light dusting of sand, scrape any poop into a bucket each morning and re-dust it with more sand. I have a couple of girls that tried using it as a dust bathing area when I kept the sand deeper so I removed the lip.

My poop board will be lined with vinyl but no lip. This information is very helpful; I like the idea of dusting it with sand.