How much time do you take to clean the coop?

[Frantastic Mei]

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[Sally PB]

Scooping poop in the coop and run takes about 5-7 minutes for me per day. Including taking the poop over to the compost pile and putting my bucket and scooper back where I keep them for next time. I go slow in the run with the chickens out so I don't startle them, and chat with them.

I have the remnants of a bale of straw in the run and pine shavings in the coop. I'm about to empty the pine shavings from the coop into the run and start using hemp in the coop.

 

[black_cat]

I don't really know how long it takes me, but probably not more than 10 minutes. I clean the coop by scooping most of the old shavings from the coop into the run. If I had separate nesting boxes, (which I don't have but am planning to) I would take the shavings out of the nesting boxes and put those in the coop. I then add new shavings to the nesting boxes and coop to keep the level about the same as it was before.

 

[3KillerBs]

It's only 4'x4' so changing the bedding takes about 15-20 minutes once every 6-8 weeks -- including building the compost pile from said used bedding.

Plus 5-10 minutes to add a thin, new layer of bedding every other week more or less. 15 minutes if the locks on the shed stick when I'm getting the garden cart and the tools to rake up leaves, pine straw, or dried grass clippings instead of using shavings (I alternate so that my bedding is a mix of materials).

 

[Mamatomany123]

I have poop boards. I scoop every morning and it takes 5 minutes. I turn the bedding in the coop in case some poop got in there. Every once in a while refill the nesting boxes. Rake out the run once every few months.

 

[Marie2020]

I have poop boards. I scoop every morning and it takes 5 minutes. I turn the bedding in the coop in case some poop got in there. Every once in a while refill the nesting boxes. Rake out the run once every few months.

Good thinking, I must do my girls coop tomorrow will throw a board in

 

[Frantastic Mei]

I have poop boards. I scoop every morning and it takes 5 minutes. I turn the bedding in the coop in case some poop got in there. Every once in a while refill the nesting boxes. Rake out the run once every few months.

Indeed a great idea ! I do notice they always go to bathroom at the same spot, so perhaps placing a removable board there would make it easier to clean, also saves some pine shavings. I wish there is a way I can clean poop board once a week instead of everyday , I should try it next time when I clean my coop. Thanks again for the great tips !

 

[thepick4uchicks]

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It takes me daily about five mins to clean off the poop boards and dump them into my poop bucket which at the end of the week I will take to the compost pile. When I do my weekly cleaning that takes about twenty mins to rinse off the poop boards which are covered with linoleum and put them out in the sun to dry out well for about twenty mins and then I get out poop off of the roost boards also and get it into the poop buckets for the compost as well as turn over the coop floors and clean out any heavily soiled shavings that need to go which is not much more than a five gallon bucket or so and then I put back that much clean shavings and I put in clean PDZ where I want it in the coop and run as well as more shavings in the run if they need it in spots. The entire process maybe takes thirty mins max in the heat. I also spruce up their dust baths and clean their waterers at least four times a week heavily and just wash them out everyday in between. I have a nipple system and a pipe plumbed now in their run but they are just now getting used to it and not all have adjusted to using it so with the heat in MS I need to wait until I am sure all have learned to use it well or I will have a dead chicken from dehydration with my luck. I have a good system that works well for me and clean up is fast and easy and that is thanks to a great deal of research and lots of answered questions from good folks on BYC who helped me out.

 

[Flockincrazy]

my kids clean my coops yes plural we have 2coops the main coop is big so it depends on how many are cleaning that day i have 3 kids 6&8yo boy's and a 10yo daughter they get paid big for cleaning coops so its usually all 3 but sometimes my 8yo says nope I'm good so we have the main coop a batchler coop for rescued/rehomed roosters oh and the brooder boxes inside and out they just cleaned them today i think it took them 2hrs or so to do both coops and the outside brooder the inside brooder is empty and they put new mulch in both runs and new shavings in all 3 and fed and watered everyone and cleaned the filter in the ducks pond and my daughter gave one of the silkies a bath and dried him off with the blow dryer so funny i think he gets dirty on purpose he loves the blow dryer