How to clean Dust in Coop

[HeyHey]

How do you clean the dust out of your coop? Or better yet..keep it out of the coop?.
I had ducks and they never had soo much dust.
Thanks for the advice

 

[3KillerBs]

It's a chicken coop so I don't worry about it.

Chickens are very dusty creatures, shedding a great deal of dander and feather dust. I've never had ducks so I don't know how to compare them.

Generous ventilation helps by letting the airflow carry the dust away. But when I clean out I always wear a mask to protect my lungs.

 

[aart]

How do you clean the dust out of your coop?

Shop vac, once a year.

 

[saysfaa]

I pick a breezy day (wind from south or east), open both west doors, and brush with a soft hand broom.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I'm kinda regretting not grabbing a free shop vac when it was offered to me. Currently use a leaf blower, fully covered up (shower cap, goggles, mask, gloves, throwaway shirt and pants, boots) - open up every door and let it rip.

 

[HeyHey]

I'm kinda regretting not grabbing a free shop vac when it was offered to me. Currently use a leaf blower, fully covered up (shower cap, goggles, mask, gloves, throwaway shirt and pants, boots) - open up every door and let it rip.

Thanks for the idea.

 

[Farmgirl1878]

I'm kinda regretting not grabbing a free shop vac when it was offered to me. Currently use a leaf blower, fully covered up (shower cap, goggles, mask, gloves, throwaway shirt and pants, boots) - open up every door and let it rip.

Pictures, we need pictures!!

 

[rosemarythyme]

Pictures, we need pictures!!

Just imagine a kid playing dress up as a guy in a hazmat suit, except for made up up dad's old clothes, and then cover it with a thick layer of chicken dander and dust.

 

[Campesina]

I prefer to blow it out rather than suck it with a shop vac. I would just have to clean the shop vac and filter anyway...a job I hate worse than cleaning the coop.

 

[AGeese]

I no longer keep their sandbox in the coop area. That cut down on lot of dust/silica they'd stir up in the garage. But they still stir up the flake in their bedding so the whole garage is ready for a mid-season clean out. I'll probably hit it with the leaf blower, then shop vac, and then hose the whole thing down, let dry and lay fresh straw.