Cleaning Chicken Poop In Coop!

[eeiko321]

hi guys

whats the best ways to clean a chicken coop from POOP?
and how often should it be done?


thanks guys

 

[sussexgal]

Are you talking about general cleaning or sanitizing?

 

[SewingDiva]

We have a Playhouse Coop and the bottom has a 2-3 layer of pine shavings. Once a week I just pick out the poo to compost it and the toss the shavings in a differentcompost pile because they take a long time to break down. The flat surfaces are scraped with a brush to remove dried poo.

The top layer of dirt in the run is scraped up and a fresh layer put down.

DE gets sprinkled on everything. This plan has worked pretty well but then we only hve three.

~Phyllis

 

[debilorrah]

We use straw inside and out and we just rake it up and re-do the layer on the ground. We also compost it for our fruit trees. Some weeks they poop WAY more than others too. I have been lucky, my ladies all seem to pee outside....

 

[hoosier]

I 'poo pick' almost daily, using a dust pan and putty knife. I have heard of others wearing rubber gloves to pick it up.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Step 1. Remove chickens.

Step 2. Shovel out litter.

Step 3. Power wash and deck brush with a bleach/water solution.

Step 4. Air dry.

Step 5. Insert clean litter.

Step 6. Insert chickens.

 

[chickflick]

Hoosier, I use the same method...but now I'm using a old spatula. It has a longer handle.

 

[hoosier]

Thanks for the tip, chickflick!

 

[Portia]

I have a droppings box covered covered with 1/2 inch wire cloth that is below the roosts. I use a hoe to scrape the excess droppings into the box 1x/wk. The box below is filled with straw, once I hoe the droppings down I cover them and the now cleaned wire cloth with DE. I clean the box out every month in the winter, every other in the summer.

 

[mtnhomechick]

Quote:
I used bleach then I read on Estes Hatchery website to not EVER use bleach.