New plastic coop... new cleaning regime. What do you do?

[RebsChooks]

Giving up on our wooden coop we are getting an Arkus this week so that we can eliminate red mite easier.

Time to lay down a good cleaning regime. What tasks do you do weekly and monthly in your plastic coop?do you clean it in situ usually, and how often do you haul it out of the run onto the grass to dismantle and spray down thoroughly?

Also how often do you sanitise the ground around the coop? Ours is on sand. I just found out that there is a ground sanitising powder... should I get some and how often should I do that?

 

[cavemanrich]

Here is a copy and paste I found about chicken mites. This may help you. I never had mites that caused any problems..


How do you treat chicken mites?
Tie bouquets of wormwood to the roosts, make sachets for your nesting boxes or hang cuttings in your coop as an ongoing mite repellent. To treat the chickens themselves, spray them with a garlic juice mixture. This treatment has been found by poultry scientists in the UK to have a 100% kill rate over 24 hours.Feb 14, 2013

WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Perris]

I have a plastic Green Frog large lodge and give fermented feed. I pooh pick daily, and change the wood shavings in the droppings tray fortnightly. I wash it with vinegar solution fortnightly. I have only dismantled it completely to pressure wash once, because I have found that my cleaning routine makes that unnecessary. I don't have a run, they free range dawn to dusk so I can't help with your ground sanitizing question. No mites or other external parasites to date