- Oct 2, 2012
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I have heard of lemon juice, NOT bleach for cleaning. I use fresh lemons right on roosting bar and it dissolves the feces, also on litter pans.
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My dogs LOVE the poop. They are schnauzers so they end up with nasty stinky beards. It hasn't hurt them to nibble on the poo but I try and discourage it just because they STINK and want to come over and kiss us in the face after having a nice poo snack!! I too have a chicken tractor to move every day or so, hosing down the area after it is moved works a bit, they still roll in it though. Over all, dogs as much as I love them, are nasty!!OK, call me crazy I'm new to these things they call chickens, but I've always wanted them so I'm gonna do it. I have dogs I'm what some might call "over protective of". I just prefer to say I'm cautious and careful because they're my responsibility. I'm planning the erection of the grand coop. Have everything situated in my head except....THE POOP !!! It's going to be a "travel by night operation". In other words, once I put the little chicky girls up each night I plan to move their coop, so in the morning they have all new bugs, guts, grass, etc to munch and they don't beat the heck out of one spot. NOW.... being "cautious" of possible chicken poop type diseases and knowing how two of my dogs will eat and smell anything .....WHAT DO I DO TO CLEAN THE AREA I JUST MOVED THE COOP AWAY FROM ???? I know bleach will kill parvo in grass but not sure about chicken poop diseases. I use DE for other things, but knowing the smelling noses of dogs and how DE is dangerous for them to breathe....WHAT DO I CLEAN THE GRASS WITH ????
Truer words were never spoken.Over all, dogs as much as I love them, are nasty!!
I also poo pick daily. About a week ago day ago, I cleaned the entire coop out and put down a linoleum floor to protect the plywood. (the cheap stick on 1'x1' squares, 8x10 coop=$30.00 @ Home Depot) Then, in a stroke of genius, I made 2 large troughs along the sides of the coop under the roosts and filled them with sand. I just used 1"x4"'s. Then put the pine shavings only in the middle. Now it's soo much easier to scoop out! I use a cat litter scoop and an old ice scraper to scrape the roosts. I'm surprised at how clean the pine shaving in the middle are staying.