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Please click on the My Coop link under my avatar and read the article. Everything you want to know is in there.

Just the coop. I don't treat the birds unless I see they actually have external parasites.

How's her hearing and her light tolerance? The Z-factor Dobies always seem to be very light sensitive and squint when they are outside and in bright light. My Bella is cray cray too. But it's the Min Pin puppy that made her that way!

Why? Chickens cannot be kept in sanitary conditions. Just removing the nightly poop load and keeping the litter dry, relatively clean and as low in dust as you can is all the birds need in a well ventilated coop. I've never once cleaned out the poop boards. I just scoop them daily, add more...

Metal cat litter scoop. I use a hammer and painter's tool to chisel frozen poop off the boards before scooping in the winter.

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...