Curious, how do you all clean out runs & coops?

[1FastFlamingo]

I was curious as to how others clean out the poops from your runs and coops. Mine is all open bottomed. I biult my coop from a shed with the floor out and backed it to a large dog pen with a fenced top for security so I can move them around to clean. Well, I don`t clean. I put an ad on CL for "free chicken maure" and get alot of responses. Got some guy coming with a tractor to dig it out, hay and all! Hehehee... I got someone else to doo the dirty work, for free... hehehee. So how do you all get your set ups cleaned?

 

[booker81]

I deep litter method, so in a couple months, I'll just grab a shovel, and shovel the coop litter into a wheelbarrow and dump into my garden. Spread it out, and till under after a month or so.

Once a year cleaning is my style

As for the run, I don't do anything. We throw a lot of stuff in there, especially garden weedings (both us and the neighbors), and they scratch everything up and whatever they don't eat gets worked into the soil.

 

[Mahonri]

My run is on a slope with a trench at the end of the slope and I clean it out regularly for compost.

We sweep and mop the coop every week unless it's a holiday and I let it go two weeks.

 

[moonlyghtegirl]

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Ditto.

 

[booker81]

The litter I have in there now was placed down in there last April. I haven't top dressed or anything. I just throw a cupful of BOSS out every couple days, and the chickens turn the litter for me. Very little smell, and it looks nice still

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

Here's my coop. I don't clean out the run (the chickens are normally free-ranging) but for the coop I bring some wood, crawl into the coop, and shove the wood shavings out with the wood block into a wheelbarrow. Then I put in fresh shavings.

 

[Chicklette 1]

I use the deep litter method as well and so inside and for my poop board, I use a kitty litter scoop. For the outside, I use a pooper scooper pan and a small rake that comes with it. Works well for me.

 

[Kansaseq]

I take a snow shovel and pull all of the poopy shavings out the door, then shovel into a wheel barrow.

 

[chickenzoo]

I have a bunch of pens for my larger chickens, that are on sand. I dust with Ag lime, sevin dust, and put down a layer of fresh hay.... in no time it looks like I didn't.... but at least I know I did... hehe
My bantams are mostly in a big bantam barn on wire floors. I can just rake up and put in a wheel barrel and burn it.