BYC Café

[Bridebeliever]

Awesome! Now you can come clean mine.

Um, no. Okay, well, if you were local...and if you were sick...and no one else would do it...and...

 

[tjo804]

De'BB,
What do you do to clean the coop?

As much as you and DD are out there cleaning I am assuming it is cleaner than my house.

When I go out I have a paint scraper on a nail on the wall and I collect eggs play with the ladies and scrape the roosts off onto the DL floor.

I am picturing in side a pet store quality coops at your house.

 

[Bridebeliever]

De'BB,
What do you do to clean the coop?

As much as you and DD are out there cleaning I am assuming it is cleaner than my house.

When I go out I have a paint scraper on a nail on the wall and I collect eggs play with the ladies and scrape the roosts off onto the DL floor.

I am picturing in side a pet store quality coops at your house.

My chicken coop is probably cleaner than my house! The storage side, not so much. We like to hang out in the coop with "the girls" so we do clean it every morning and in 4 months it has never smelled yucky.
Here's a "Tour de Coop" by De'BB

Walking up to the coop

The storage and rabbit side (not so tidy!)

One end of the coop

Other end of the coop (the size is about 7x18)
We house 11 chickens

What the floor looks like right this minute

The pathway from the coop to our house

The girls out free ranging

Our coop is never bad to clean because we do it every day and because they like to spend the day out unless it's snowing or raining. They only go in the coop for a nap around 1pm.

 

[WVduckchick]

That's awesome DeBB! I'm jealous

 

[Bridebeliever]

Yes, I feel VERY lucky! My DH and Oldest DD worked very hard on this! I wish I had a better picture that showed how truly awful this building was before they began! All they had to work with was that it had a cement floor and cinder block walls about 5 feet up, no roof, they built it.

 

[Debs Flock]

My chicken coop is probably cleaner than my house! The storage side, not so much. We like to hang out in the coop with "the girls" so we do clean it every morning and in 4 months it has never smelled yucky.
Here's a "Tour de Coop" by De'BB

Walking up to the coop


The storage and rabbit side (not so tidy!)


One end of the coop


Other end of the coop (the size is about 7x18)
We house 11 chickens


What the floor looks like right this minute


The pathway from the coop to our house


The girls out free ranging


Our coop is never bad to clean because we do it every day and because they like to spend the day out unless it's snowing or raining. They only go in the coop for a nap around 1pm.

Very nice coop! Thanks for sharing the pics.

I've been lurking about and just want to say hello. Mornings have been rough lately so I've been on here more in the evenings.

 

[Bridebeliever]

Very nice coop! Thanks for sharing the pics.

I've been lurking about and just want to say hello. Mornings have been rough lately so I've been on here more in the evenings.

Thanks! I tend to be here a lot in the evening too...mostly because of the whole west coast location and I'm not a morning person!

 

[Bridebeliever]

I wrote my first article today!!! I hope I didn't make myself sound like a nin com poof!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...rgencies-diseases-injuries-before-they-happen

 

[Debs Flock]

Good article!

 

[WVduckchick]

Good article!  

x2! Very nice BB!