Keeping a clean coop...

[Chickassan]

I'm almost embarrassed by my method seeing how meticulious and nearly down to a science some of you have it..
I take a sheet lay it spread out at the coop door, rake the poop hay onto the sheet gather the sheet corners and drag the whole mess to the compost pile.
I hose the floor, iv'e got a pump pressure sprayer for roosts and cracks.
At the end I squeegee the floor and refresh the hay.
My coop is built on a big machinery pallet surprisingly the wooden floor makes things easier for me.

 

[Beccazon]

My coop is a repurposed 10'x10' shed. There are 2 roosts...7' and 5'. 4 nesting boxes. A ramp, a "ladder" and a flat "tier" that runs round 3 sides with a cutout in one corner. A quarter of the shed is sectioned off for the ducks at night. The rest is for the chickens. The run is out front of the barn door opening and is 10'x20' and netted above. The floor is still currently the original plywood and is covered with pine shavings. The run is now all dirt.

My girls prefer the flat surfaces to the roosts at night. In fact they like to huddle in one corner and fight for window space lol. (Even with 3 large windows they prefer one in particular).

I am on disability so I have ample time to clean, play, feed my flock. Each morning I let the girls out and use a cheap old metal pancake turner to scrape the flats over to the cutout corner where there is a tote beneath to catch the droppings. That is save for a compost heap. Then I flip any large or obvious droppings from the floor out the door and they get raked to one corner of the run. Cleanup is that simple for me. Takes 10 minutes. Eventually...about once a month...I kind of rake the corner in the run and take the shavings and larger litter to compost and the rich soil is accumulating to be spread in the garden after it is cleared in the fall. The poop tote I empty into compost at about the same time. It is never full.

The girls free range about half of the day. The rest of the day the roos are free ranging. So that limits coop cleaning as well.

The ducks have their own adjacent run (10'x30') that they access by their own door. I can access their coop space by the inside of the coop and for stink maintenance lol, I scrape their area weekly...completely! I add fresh pine shavings and each day during the week I shake another thin layer over it to limit smell.

I keep making little adjustments when I see something that bugs me but all in all there is very little odor other than the ducks and I use no odor killer. Though I am considering some for the duck bed cuz when it is humid here it can get funky. But with my large doors , it stays well ventilated!

 

[Kdlevesque]

Here’s my setup (several folks wanted to see it). We have hardware cloth on all 4 sides and the bottom (I’m over protective). We have a small backyard flock that are pets only. We started with 6 and now we only have 4: Popcorn, Marigold, Fluffy and Nugget. We have a pvc tractor on wheels that we put them in so they can forage.

Coop/run:

Here’s the water system:

Here’s the feeder with the auger:
Food goes into the pvc pipe and we turn the crank on the other side. It brings the food down for the girls.

 

[21hens-incharge]

My management system is pretty easy.

The back half of my coop has 3 removable roosts. I take those out and pressure spray with the hose. While they dry I scoop what was under them into a giant lightweight pot from a tree we got long ago. That gets carried to the compost pile nearby and dumped. If I am full up on compost I love the it with a kitchen trash bag and bag then toss in the regular trash. The holes in the bottom of the pot keep the bag easy to fill and easy to pull out.

I sweep/scoop the partially used shavings from the half of the coop that has no roosts and toss to the roost side. Then I add shavings to that empty side. Easy peasy.
Nest boxes get dumped under roosts and filled with new shavings.

The whole 8x14 coop takes about 30 minutes once a month to do.

Edited because autocorrect thinks roosts get pressure "soda" not pressure "spray".

Not sure why autocorrect hates me so much.

 

[blackdog043]

My morning routine is, scoop the poop board that has PDZ on it, scrape the roost bar, the ladder going up and the top and landing boards on the nest box. All the poop goes to my compost pile. This takes about 10 minutes of my day.

The coop bedding is mostly pine shavings, with some straw. I add fresh shavings as needed, maybe bimonthly. I clean the coop out once a year and all the bedding goes in my deep litter run. I don't have any fowl odors or draw flies to my coop.

 

[Shadrach]

I've got six and a half coops atm.
I clean in rotation normally so each gets cleaned out roughly once a week.
I don't use chemicals in the coops as a rule. However, if I've had a death in the coop, chick or adult, I clean as outlined below and then scrub walls and floor with a disinfectant called Zotal.
http://www.zotal.com/en/products/disinfectants/zotal/
Normal mite and pest control is done with a blowtorch. The blue tip of a decent blowtorch flame is 400 degrees centigrade. Just touch from this kills every known mite and it's eggs instantly. There is no residue to worry about and as long as you haven't set fire to the coop the chickens can go back in immediately.
This coop didn't get quite the full treatment because I'm trying to encourage a hen to sit on the eggs that are accumulating.
I've reduced the file size of the pics so hopefully they will load reasonably quickly.
Tribe 2's coop.

About a weeks worth of, well, you know.
I'm trying to keep this reasonably clean, especially the top board below the perch because I've got a hen with neurological problems the can't perch so it's nice if she isn't sitting in her own poop. She wedges herself between the perch and the wall at night.

Other side.

Cleaning kit. Blowtorch, wide paint scraper, brush and bucket.

All the nest boxes in my coops are removable as are all the roost bars.
Nest boxes and used roost bar removed trying to preserve the nest.
In this coop the nest box and roost bar doesn't have a back or base which means even if a hen is sitting I can still clean around her by sliding the arrangement out.

The arrangement.

A bit rushed and I don't usually char the roost ends this much.

Nest box arrangement back in place with some extra straw with the eggs and new straw in the second nest.

Other side scraped and brushed.

Two more coops. I've just done the yellow coop but it's got an occupant so no blow torching.
Here she is two weeks into her sit.

 

[Cryss]

Question for those that use poop boards and pdz ( @aart ) do you have a lip around the edge to prevent loss of pdz or is the edge like a table edge, no raised lip? And why do you do it whatever way you have?

 

[Coopscraft]

I've got six and a half coops atm.
I clean in rotation normally so each gets cleaned out roughly once a week.
I don't use chemicals in the coops as a rule. However, if I've had a death in the coop, chick or adult, I clean as outlined below and then scrub walls and floor with a disinfectant called Zotal.
http://www.zotal.com/en/products/disinfectants/zotal/
Normal mite and pest control is done with a blowtorch. The blue tip of a decent blowtorch flame is 400 degrees centigrade. Just touch from this kills every known mite and it's eggs instantly. There is no residue to worry about and as long as you haven't set fire to the coop the chickens can go back in immediately.
This coop didn't get quite the full treatment because I'm trying to encourage a hen to sit on the eggs that are accumulating.
I've reduced the file size of the pics so hopefully they will load reasonably quickly.
Tribe 2's coop.
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About a weeks worth of, well, you know.
I'm trying to keep this reasonably clean, especially the top board below the perch because I've got a hen with neurological problems the can't perch so it's nice if she isn't sitting in her own poop. She wedges herself between the perch and the wall at night.
View attachment 1865732 Other side.
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Cleaning kit. Blowtorch, wide paint scraper, brush and bucket.
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All the nest boxes in my coops are removable as are all the roost bars.
Nest boxes and used roost bar removed trying to preserve the nest.
In this coop the nest box and roost bar doesn't have a back or base which means even if a hen is sitting I can still clean around her by sliding the arrangement out.
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The arrangement.
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A bit rushed and I don't usually char the roost ends this much.
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Nest box arrangement back in place with some extra straw with the eggs and new straw in the second nest.View attachment 1865756
Other side scraped and brushed.View attachment 1865757
Two more coops. I've just done the yellow coop but it's got an occupant so no blow torching.
Here she is two weeks into her sit.
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Yummy: benzene.

 

[Shadrach]

Yummy: benzene.

I'm awfully sorry old chap but would you care to elaborate.

 

[aart]

Question for those that use poop boards and pdz ( @aart ) do you have a lip around the edge to prevent loss of pdz or is the edge like a table edge, no raised lip? And why do you do it whatever way you have?

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