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Dobie's coop is an inspiration for a lot of bright, airy, easy-to-maintain coops. :D

If you're having to clean like that you can't have been using enough bedding. How much did you put down at a time? You shouldn't put down a foot all at once, but you build it up in layers of a few inches at a time until you've got as much as the coop will hold or until you want to harvest it...

Your table is clever. My Little Monitor Coop is too small to have feed and water inside, so I asked DH to make a shelter for my feeder and waterer. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/an-outdoor-shelter-for-the-feeder-and-waterer.76487/ With a large flock I think it would be advisable...

Deep bedding absorbs moisture from the poop and from tracked-in mud and helps it dry -- as long as there is enough volume of bedding and as long as it stays fluffy. If you're having odor problems with that much space for your birds I suspect that you need either more ventilation total or more...

Welcome to BYC. What lovely birds you have! There must be a story behind inheriting them but what a task to learn to manage chickens with such a large flock! :) The Usual Guidelines say that each adult, standard-sized hen needs 4 square feet in the coop so that's an appropriate amount of...