How to clean out pine pellet litter?

[BlazeJester]

Ok... I resurrected my brooder this week after deciding to take the chance of adopting three straight-run bantam araucanas. I'm hoping I've got a trio... one is almost definitely a rooster

Anyway, I had pine pellets on hand and decided to use them for the brooder. Great convenience, but I hadn't used this before and now I'm at a loss for how to clean it out - the poops are about the same size as the pellets so sifting won't work, and the sawdust at the bottom is impossible to get to. Any ideas??

 

[cmom]

I put them with the poop into my compost piles and just put new ones down. I don't try to clean it.

 

[VelvettFog]

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[oberhaslikid]

I use a metal dust pan to clean mine out an put the sawdust in 5 gallon buckets and then mulch around my Blueberry bushes or other bushes.
I also bought a small square shovel about 3 foot long from harbor freight to use in the brooding boxes.

 

[ChickenBoy17]

Sift thru it w hardware cloth

 

[jennh]

I just purchased this. BUT, I bought the replacement, since I work at a hardware store, I'll just get a handle there. Why should I pay to ship a handle??

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