Dishpans in your nest boxes?

[XtremeRooster]

They should be fine as is. Keeps them from kicking all the nesting materials out.

 

[Blue CopperHen]

Thanks so much!

 

[Hokum Coco]

Every flock and coop has it own dynamics. There are as many cleaning regiments as there are chicken owners practically.

I bed my 4x8 coop with wood pellets that are super absorbent and change to sawdust when they swell up when in contact with moisture.
I have anywhere between 10 and 15 birds in my coop.


I clean my poop boards every two to three days. My bedding and coop once a year in October when I harvest my garden.

My nest boxes I fold a feed bag and pop it in the bottom; When soiled a fold a new one and pop out the soiled and in with the new.

Easy Peasy!.

I move my coop and run every year around April and plant my vegetable garden there in the vacated spot in late May or June.

Works for me.







Edited by Hokum Coco - 8/16/13 at 12:37pm

 

[appps]

I use hay in my boxes so all it takes is lifting it out and replacing with new. Easier than shoveling shaving.

If I was having a dream coop built one thing I would have again is a latch able door on my nest box. I love being able to lock broodies etc out of the nest box at night. Also keeps them from sleeping in there. I actually have a piece of cord on mine that I can use to pull the door open or shut from the outside so I can close the nest box from outside the coop.