Chicken poop on the patio!!

[lesmullet]

SO, I have a flock of five. and they free range in the backyard during the day. And they ALWAYS poop all over our patio. Which I have just accepted as a downside to having backyard chickens. Usually we are able to sweep and hose it down frequently but last week we were gone on vacation so they chickens left us quite a mess on the patio when we got back. SO there are some poops that were a little more runny (sorry TMI) and it's dried on the bricks pretty good. I don't have a pressure washer but we are hosting a backyard party tomorrow...

so I was wondering if anyone had any tips for cleaning chicken poop off of cement/brick patios? any cleaning concoctions or tools or what have you??

Thanks in advance!

 

[Free Feather]

Mine crap on our patio, but it has a dirt floor with a tin roof and lattice sides - I guess it is more of a car port. They would crap all over the step, which I just swept off. Now they cannot free range when I am not home until a few of the "naughty" ones go to my grandmother because they will not stay out of the neighbor's yard.
The chicken coop is on the opposite side of the property from our house. The ones that come over here and into the neighbor's yard and gardens are the ones we raised around us and the house as chicks. The ones that were raised around the coop and the edge of the woods do not come over here. So, if you dislike them crapping on the patio, try raising future chicks away from you.