boards cleaning

[zheter]

I recently put dropping boards on top of the pine shavings underneath the roost in our coop. How often does everyone clean them? It's only been a week and it's already smelly and attracting a ton of flies.

 

[Ted Brown]

The goal with dropping boards is to clean them often, most try for daily removal of waste.

In addition, folks add a thin layer Sweet PDZ or sand on the boards. Intent is to absorb moisture as well as making waste removal easier.

 

[Sally PB]

I scoop every morning, and I use PDZ. There's rarely any smell, unless one of the hens has just dropped a cecal poop, or when the poop collection bucket is open.

The idea behind a board is the poop is all right there, and it holds the PDZ to help neutralize the odor.

 

[aart]

I recently put dropping boards on top of the pine shavings underneath the roost in our coop. How often does everyone clean them? It's only been a week and it's already smelly and attracting a ton of flies.

What you have is nothing more than an 'extra layer' of coop floor.

My boards are raised ~30" off the floor and have a thin layer of PDZ,
I sift the entirety every day.

Here's some posts about it, they're kind of old, but changes are noted.
...and the threads these posts are in has a ton of examples of poop boards.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-poop-pictures.621363/page-111#post-13179595
Updates:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-poop-pictures.621363/page-178#post-18966048