Pre-poultry cleaning

[Shawnee Moon]

In my chicken house are wooden nest boxes, a wooden roost ladder, concrete floors and I think wood siding inside, maybe just regular "wall" material.

I have my little brooder area ready for chicks, as I'm having to get the area to 90° and stay there first.

I swept and vacuumed the room today, all cobwebs and droppings are gone. Should I wipe or spray down surfaces with a Clorox and water solution, or Lysol, or leave it alone? It hasn't been used in like a decade, for chickens anyway. (Just motorcycle parts!) it did have a lot of mouse droppings and there remained some chicken poop in the nest boxes. It was all vacuumed with a Shop Vac.

(I also cleaned the windows, and we raked and leveled the dirt run and trimmed the vines.)

What else should I do? I mean, regarding the cleanliness of the coop.

Thanks!

 

[lynnehd]

Sounds like a deep clean is a very good idea, given the creatures that may have lived there for the past 10 years.

There are various cleansers, but I would think hand scrubbing with a stiff brush, using 2-3 gallons of mild soapy water to about
1/4 -1/2 cup of bleach?
Get in as many crevices as you can.

Then let it dry completely.