Chicken coop

[misha42201]

Can you use speedy dry on the floor of the wood chicken coop?

 

[aart]

Can you use speedy dry on the floor of the wood chicken coop?

Please post a link to the exact product you are asking about.
Is it an oil absorber?
Do you want to use in place of bedding like pine shavings?

 

[misha42201]

Please post a link to the exact product you are asking about.
Is it an oil absorber?
Do you want to use in place of bedding like pine shavings?

I don't know the brands, just inquiring, yes for the floor & pine shavings for the nests

 

[aart]

I don't know the brands, just inquiring, yes for the floor & pine shavings for the nests

Most oil absorbers are clay granules, not good for chickens, IMO.


What kind of bedding you use may depend on how you manage the manure.
This is about cleaning, but covers my big picture

-I use poop boards under roosts with thin(<1/2") layer of sand/PDZ mix, sifted daily(takes 5-10mins) into bucket going to friends compost.
-Scrape big or wet poops off roost and ramps as needed.
-Pine shavings on coop floor, add some occasionally, totally changed out once or twice a year, old shavings added to run.
- My runs have semi-deep litter(cold composting), never clean anything out, just add smaller dry materials on occasion, add larger wood chippings as needed.
Aged ramial wood chippings are best IMO.
-Nests are bedded with straw, add some occasionally, change out if needed(broken egg).

There is no odor, unless a fresh cecal has been dropped and when I open the bucket to add more poop.

That's how I keep it 'clean', have not found any reason to clean 'deeper' in 5 years.

 

[aart]

Building a coop next to my forest acreage and would love someone to argue with my setup.

Saint Augustine, Florida on a bluff above the salt marsh on the intercostal: building a 5' x 10' run with a coop incorporated (think breezeways) with rafters, concrete footer with buried hardware cloth and sand bedding/floor. Two doors to the bifurcated coop/run combo with chicken tractors for separate daytime run.

Basically a structure with hardware cloth walls instead of plywood and tin roof over the rafters. No gaps, predator proof (we have lots of predators because Florida).

Also if you want to move here and build it for me... It's been so humid here!

Did you mean to start new thread @CreveChris ......

 

[CreveChris]

Did you mean to start new thread @CreveChris ......

I forgot to delete. Started the thread, yes, but elsewhere.