Poop Board

[PillKar]

Hey Y’all,

How many of you have a poop board under your roosts for easy cleaning? If you have one what do you have it covered with?

Thanks!!

 

[BDutch]

I have a poop board under de roosts. On top I lay cardboard and e.g. some grass clippings from mowing or fallen leaves in autumn. After a week or so I add the poop with green to my compost bin. The cardboard can be used a few weeks.

 

[aart]

I now use a thin layer(<1/8") of PDZ, but here are mine way back when:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/6...raphic-gross-poop-pictures/1100#post_13179595
...and later:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-poop-pictures.621363/page-178#post-18966048

 

[fil76]

I put a few planks of wood on my poor shelf then some wood shavings
Cheers phil

 

[FlyWheel]

I found out about poop boards (here, in fact) about halfway through building my first coop. but being the shade tree engineer that I am I thought "I can do that one better " and built a tray that I would fill with granulated zeolite (Sweet PDZ) This made cleaning it as easy as scooping out a kitty litter box. Since the zeolite also binds to and neutralizes the ammonia the coop never smelled like a coop, even though it was housing ten chickens. 11 when I still had a rooster.

 

[so lucky]

I don't have one but am realizing it is probably needed. I usually empty out the areas under the roosts frequently and scoot some of the cleaner hay over there. I'm using PDZ this year, and really like its properties.

 

[blackdog043]

I have one, I keep 1/4" - 1/2" of PDZ in it. I scoop poop every morning, the poop goes in my compost pile.

I have vinyl under the PDZ, to keep any moisture from seeping into the wood tray.

 

[bajabirdbrain]

I have v

inyl on our poop boards and just take a kitty litter shovel and a plastic coffee can to sweep the poop into the can and deposit in a trash can that ends up in our disposal compost pile. Takes about 2-3 minutes to clean boards and maybe once per month I take them out and wash them off. Can't imagine anything easier.

This shows the poop boards before cleaning. They just lift off the brackets underneath them.

 

[HopeSprings]

Mine are lined with the same vinyl I used on the floor and walls, and then topped with sand and PDZ. Easy clean up with a kitty litter scoop; a thorough clean up with the kitchen mesh sieve when I miss the beach!