Iluveggers
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So I was perusing Pinterest yesterday, and low & behold, someone has the greatest idea for poop cleaning without a board!
My roosts are only 18 in from the ground (I keep them low for my Brahma & soon-to-be-added Cochin & Bielefelder). The low side of my coop is only 4 feet high, so there isn’t any room to make a poop board on that wall anyway.
This person took feed bags, cut them in half on the side seams, and put them under her roosts in the evening. In the morning, she carefully folds them and dumps them into a bucket. She hosed hers off & hung them to dry (my weather isn’t conducive to that right now but once spring is in full force that’s another story.)
I tried it skeptically last night. To my surprise, poop was piled right on the feed bags! Most of it slid right off (some here was frozen), and I used my regular scooper to slide the rest. Wow. Took about 30 seconds. I am usually an every morning scooper…this was soooo much faster! I put them outside my run for the day, and will stick them back out this evening at lockup once it’s dark! If I remember, I’ll take a picture in the mornjng.
Of course I can’t find the pin anymore!
My roosts are only 18 in from the ground (I keep them low for my Brahma & soon-to-be-added Cochin & Bielefelder). The low side of my coop is only 4 feet high, so there isn’t any room to make a poop board on that wall anyway.
This person took feed bags, cut them in half on the side seams, and put them under her roosts in the evening. In the morning, she carefully folds them and dumps them into a bucket. She hosed hers off & hung them to dry (my weather isn’t conducive to that right now but once spring is in full force that’s another story.)
I tried it skeptically last night. To my surprise, poop was piled right on the feed bags! Most of it slid right off (some here was frozen), and I used my regular scooper to slide the rest. Wow. Took about 30 seconds. I am usually an every morning scooper…this was soooo much faster! I put them outside my run for the day, and will stick them back out this evening at lockup once it’s dark! If I remember, I’ll take a picture in the mornjng.
Of course I can’t find the pin anymore!
