Cleaning Chicken Poop In Coop!

[hoosier]

I wonder why? I have used bleach for years w/o any problems. Have I just been lucky?
I am sure I read to use it when I was just beginning.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

my ladies all seem to pee outside....

Chickens don't pee...their poo and pee is all in the same pile..the white stuff you see on top of most poo piles is the pee.​

 

[JennsPeeps]

Using a bleach/water solution should be fine.

Allowing chicken poo and bleach to mix is a very bad idea. Their poo has a high ammonia content. When mixing ammonia and bleach, you get toxic gases called "chlorine gas".

 

[panner123]

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I have used this method for years. Only I have found a wasy to do away with step #2. In the back of the coop I made what looks like a doggy door, I just power wash everything out the door. This is done twice a year as a deep clean.
In the summer I don't have to worry about the coops getting to messy, for the chickens like to stay out side at night. The winter is a different story. I do a lit pick up of the poop once a month, put down some more chips and some DE.
The trick to keeping the coop from smelling bad is keeping it dry and using DE.
If you want it clean a pressure washer is the way to go. Now they have the circular tip that works like a dream.
As for bleach, again I have used it for years and never had a problem. Watch now that I have said that when we clean the coops next time all the birds will croak.

 

[shareneh]

I just stir the pine shavings and add more pine shavings on top. I read about this method in a chicken book and it was started in the days when resources were short due to the war. (World War II I think).

I am hoping that the decomposion will add a little heat in the winter. That is what the theory is anyway. You don't have to pick the poop every week if you do this, but if you have only a few chickens it wouldn't hurt.

You should straighten your coop at least once a week and make sure your nest boxes, roosts and coop are safe and secure for your chickens.

My method I am trying has worked for the most part. I have only smelled a strong poop smell during the hottest month of the summer but a more pine helped and as it cooled off my coop went back to no smell at all.

 

[Oblio13]

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[Dr Seuss] Would you clean it with a scoop? Would you clean it with some soup?[/Dr Seuss]

 

[eeiko321]

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Chickens don't pee...their poo and pee is all in the same pile..the white stuff you see on top of most poo piles is the pee.

yeah thats called "kill 2 birds with 1 stone"

 

[dlhunicorn]

I line with cardboard and then sand on top of that... over that shavings... removing the shavings (twice weekly or weekly or daily dependent on the amount of birds you have) is easy to remove from the layer of sand.,,,each time you will remove a little bit from the top layer of sand and after a while (when the cardboard is moist ) just roll up and pitch and replace.

 

[Reinbeau]

I've been raking the top layer of bedding (and feathers, those girls lose lots of feathers overnight fighting over the highest corner!) into a bucket twice a week or so and toss it on the compost pile. There's a poop door on the back of the coop, I'm planning on sweeping everything out into my garden cart next spring and add all of that to the compost pile, too, and then perform a thorough cleaning twice a year after that.

 

[Barnyard]

Well I am tired from just reading what you all do. I have a dirt floor in my coop and my job is pretty easy. I just rake it all out and into a big compost pile it goes... now I know why I have a dirt floor