Cleaning Messy coop?

[MonkeyZero]

How is the easiest way to do it without dismantling. It is dirty, and the leaves packed in as the DLM I used is weird. I'm getting to more pullets and getting rid of my roo. how do you do it.

 

[MandyH]

A shovel, a rake, and a good pair of rubber boots!!!

 

[Chatychick]

Yep all of the above and dont forget the dust mask...I wont do it unless I have 1...keeps down the chicken poopy buggers...lol also I have this thing called a blade...got it at Wal-mart its basically for chipping ice of sidewalks...looks like a hoe that is straight...works great fro scraping all of it off the floor...

 

[newchickmom]

With this heat wave, I came home from work yesterday and went to let the girls out, and the amonia smell just about knocked me over!!! I did a full litter change! My coop is 8X16 so it took me 1 1/2 hours to finish it.

My tools of choice:

Rake
Shovel
Wheel barro

 

[Churkenduse]

Hi,
What do you all use as litter. I use straw, it works great but when it comes to cleaning out the coop it is difficult 'cause all the strips are so long, they get tangled(shoulda cut em up)
Any suggestions?

And yes this heat is causing a problem.

I cannot believe all the "stuff" 5 little chickens produce

 

[Buster]

Quote:
I use pine shavings- they seem to work well. most of the time I don't even see the poo because I throw food out there they can scratch through and they keep it turned over.

 

[newchickmom]

I use pine shavings too. Every day or 2 I stir everything with the rake and add more about once a week.

 

[Dawn419]

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I use pine shavings for litter. I'm also using the deep litter method and so far, so good. I've been new adding pine shavings and food grade Diatomaceous Earth (helps dry up pooh, also a mite/lice preventative) whenever the coop needs it and I'm not dealing with any smell, whatsoever. I've been using the DLM since June '07, will clean the old stuff out in late spring/early summer depending on what the litter looks like.

Dawn

 

[Buster]

I'm trying the DLM method too. Where can I get some DE?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I use pine shavings. I have an 8x8 coop and 13 chickens. They have a run about 12x8. I clean with a shovel once a month and it takes me about 15 minutes. Not to much scraping required and I'm lucky as they keep the litter turned but, if they didn't I would recommend a rake.