Poop hammock-not going to work

[chicChickChick]

Tried it out this week. The smell is horrific and even with daily emptying I’m afraid the fumes might be too much for the hens. 19 birds

Anyone find a way to make this work? The two roosts are six feet across and about 48 and 56 inches in height. I’m not excited to fabricate poop boards.

 

[DobieLover]

I’m not excited to fabricate poop boards.

Why? It's not hard. And they work very well.

Mine are covered in zeolite and I scoop them daily. No smell and no fumes. It is very bad for a chickens delicate respiratory system to breath in ammonia fumes. If you can smell it, the concentration is way too high.
How much ventilation, in square feet, is in your coop? Can you post pictures? What size is the coop?

 

[Kiki]

Why? It's not hard. And they work very well.
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Mine are covered in zeolite and I scoop them daily. No smell and no fumes. It is very bad for a chickens delicate respiratory system to breath in ammonia fumes. If you can smell it, the concentration is way too high.
How much ventilation, in square feet, is in your coop? Can you post pictures? What size is the coop?

I think they mean something like this isn't going to work:
Post in thread 'Poop Board vs. Poop Hammock' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/poop-board-vs-poop-hammock.432741/post-5401905

 

[Kiki]

A poop board can be as simple as piece of wood laid across two stands to hold it up.

 

[Kiki]

Why? It's not hard. And they work very well.
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Mine are covered in zeolite and I scoop them daily. No smell and no fumes. It is very bad for a chickens delicate respiratory system to breath in ammonia fumes. If you can smell it, the concentration is way too high.
How much ventilation, in square feet, is in your coop? Can you post pictures? What size is the coop?

Check out the great room here:
Thread 'Home sweet home' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/home-sweet-home.1595878/

 

[chicChickChick]

Because I don’t know how. I don’t have anything tall enough to serve as stands to put boards on.

 

[Kiki]

Because I don’t know how.

Do you have more milk crates laying around?

You could stack a few on each side, under the roosts, and lay a board across them.

 

[NatJ]

Tried it out this week. The smell is horrific and even with daily emptying I’m afraid the fumes might be too much for the hens. 19 birds

Anyone find a way to make this work? The two roosts are six feet across and about 48 and 56 inches in height. I’m not excited to fabricate poop boards.

Is there a reason to have anything special under the roosts?

You can put bedding on the floor, and let the poop fall there. Either scoop it up regularly, or add more bedding and clean it out less often (large amounts of dry bedding can usually keep it from smelling bad, although that can change depending on the climate, the amount of droppings, the kind of bedding, and a few other variables.)

Having it fall to the floor means it is farther from the chickens, instead of being right underneath them. Depending on how the ventilation is arranged in your coop, sometimes that makes a difference in how much smell actually reaches the chickens, and sometimes it does not.

 

[chicChickChick]

Is there a reason to have anything special under the roosts?

You can put bedding on the floor, and let the poop fall there. Either scoop it up regularly, or add more bedding and clean it out less often (large amounts of dry bedding can usually keep it from smelling bad, although that can change depending on the climate, the amount of droppings, the kind of bedding, and a few other variables.)

Having it fall to the floor means it is farther from the chickens, instead of being right underneath them. Depending on how the ventilation is arranged in your coop, sometimes that makes a difference in how much smell actually reaches the chickens, and sometimes it does not.

I tried nothing beneath and thought the smell and mess built up too quickly. 19 birds ( five are bantams) in 6by13 coop with two big TSC bags of compressed shavings and by the end of the second week it was stinky. The girls spend most of their time outside too.

When I had 4-6 hens in much smaller quarters per square foot it wasn’t so smelly

 

[chicChickChick]

Do you have more milk crates laying around?

You could stack a few on each side, under the roosts, and lay a board across them.

No. Sadly. And I’d need to stack them 4 high on either side and the middle at minimum. Would need 24 or so!

What I really need is Shelf Building for dummies.