Poop shelf paper?

[Trenttrent]

My first chicks are 5 weeks old and I’m still going over roost/shelf ideas. Is a paper covered shelf something that could work? I’m thinking the rolls of paper that painters use for masking, maybe 2’ wide with a light layer of bedding. Rolling it up with poop and bedding inside to be composted? What am I missing here? Thanks!

 

[Sefirothe]

My first chicks are 5 weeks old and I’m still going over roost/shelf ideas. Is a paper covered shelf something that could work? I’m thinking the rolls of paper that painters use for masking, maybe 2’ wide with a light layer of bedding. Rolling it up with poop and bedding inside to be composted? What am I missing here? Thanks!

I tried that for under my wire bottomed quail cages. The paper rips and tears easily, especially when wet from absorbing moisture from poop.

If you’ve been saving them, a better alternative would maybe be feed sacks and then shake them out over your compost pile. If you’ve are dead set on using something flat on your poop boards.

Lots of us just use PDZ, sand or a combo of those two and scoop it like a cat litter box. I dump my scoopings into a 5 gallon bucket and that goes into the compost pile, or to friends who want to enhance their compost pile.

 

[Bsmac]

I just have some pieces of paneling cut to size to fit under the roosts on the coop floor. Slide them out scrape poop into a bucket with a putty knife. Takes a few minuets no pdz needed! It works well for me!

 

[Three Stents]

My 2 poop shelves have a sand/PDZ mixture only. They get cleaned out daily with one of those cat litter scoops. You are over thinking this.

 

[Knobby]

I've just been using the empty feed sacks that I cut to size. Once the poop accumulates, I pull the pieces off the poop shelf and onto my wheelbarrow, then replace with new feed sacks.