Any good deep bedding coop clean out ideas?

[Folly's place]

Usually twice each year we have a fun couple of hours with face masks (essential!) pitch forks, and shovels, and it all goes into our small manure spreader, and out to fertilize part of one of the fields. Then permethrin powder, and new shavings, which gets added to as time goes by.
Mary

 

[K0k0shka]

There's a really cool setup I've seen on this forum which I'm incorporating into the new coop I'm building - a floor-level "poop flap" opening on one of the walls. When it's cleaning time, you open the flap and just push everything out through the opening with a push broom. Less dust and less work, since you're not lifting and dumping. If you can cut out the flap on a wall adjoining the run, you can just push the litter out into the run, and the chickens will spread it for you. If your coop is elevated, you can put a wheelbarrow right by the flap and push the litter out into it. I'm going to put my poop flap opening on the side facing the compost pile, so the litter will go right into the compost area behind the coop.

 

[slordaz]

I set my coop up no lip on outside, on some pavers and coated the inside with rubberized stuff, then just take a snow shovel into a trash bag or the wheel barrel, makes for easy clean up and when I'm deep cleaning it, I can take the power washer to it

 

[rosemarythyme]

There's a really cool setup I've seen on this forum which I'm incorporating into the new coop I'm building - a floor-level "poop flap" opening on one of the walls. When it's cleaning time, you open the flap and just push everything out through the opening with a push broom. Less dust and less work, since you're not lifting and dumping. If you can cut out the flap on a wall adjoining the run, you can just push the litter out into the run, and the chickens will spread it for you. If your coop is elevated, you can put a wheelbarrow right by the flap and push the litter out into it. I'm going to put my poop flap opening on the side facing the compost pile, so the litter will go right into the compost area behind the coop.

Mine's even more straight forward... I just push the litter out the human door. I keep a 1x6" across the doorway held in place with some bricks, to hold litter in, but during cleanout I just remove the 1x6 and shovel out through the door. Since my used litter goes into the run there's zero clean up and I can clear the entire thing out in about 5 min (though my yard cart does conveniently fit right at door height).

 

[jreardon1918]

Our 4x8 raised coop has two swing out doors. There is a lip that has temporary 2x4s to hold in bedding. To clean out, i remove the 2x4 s and use a rake and pull the bedding onto a tarp on the ground. Then I drag the tar to the run. Longer to drag than it is to rake out. Have done this three times in 2.5 years. Doing it later this fall. I think this picture gives the idea.