poop board

[jenesis536]

The poop board may be a little heavier and cumbersome to deal with but works. Most people will go in and scrap them off into a bin. We're doing a shelf above the next boxes and putting boot trays on top so we can easily remove them, dump the poop and spray them off. They are really light and easy to move. I've heard some people will spray them with cooking spray so the poop doesn't stick, or they'll throw a little sand on them or shavings.

If you have a poop board, they are harder to keep clean... you can cover it with linoleum, but you still have to scrap it off, or lug out the whole piece to scrap and wash off.

I found boot trays at Dollar Tree for $1 each yesterday!! I got several so I can put them next to each other and if I didn't feel like doing a complete scrub on them I have a few left over to put in that are already clean. I even got one for my chicken poop shoes.

 

[AZBootsie]

One of these days I plan on making one of these poop Hammocks. Pretty neat idea, check out this

 

[elmo]

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It's the same idea, they serve the same function (to catch night time droppings). A poop board is often fixed and stationary, and you scrape the poo off into a bucket, etc. periodically. A boot tray, like the ones I use, are not attached/fixed, and are light and easy to remove, take over to my composter and dump out. An actual board would be much heavier and more cumbersome to use this way. The plastic of the boot tray is naturally slick and most of the droppings simply roll right off. And you can hose down plastic without worrying about moisture getting into it and causing warping.

 

[elmo]

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I wouldn't want to clean one of those, myself.

 

[nurseshelly]

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I cover mine with sand ... same thing, use cat litter scoop. Nothing worse than trying to scrape poop off of the board and having a fresh one in there smearing all over ... except maybe trying to scrape off a dried on one and having it flip into your hair

Michele

 

[cptbahama]

how wide does the poop board have to be? 8" 10" 12"??

 

[nurseshelly]

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We just made sure ours were wide enough that we could put the food and water under it without it getting pooped in.
Michele

 

[elmo]

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Cat litter, great idea

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Cat litter scoop, not cat litter itself. If you used cat litter on the droppings board, I think the chickens would eat it, and I don't think that would be a good thing.