Roost placement

[aart]

Smaht!

I love your area's 'accent'...and that you spelled it out phonetically!!

 

[K0k0shka]

I love your area's 'accent'...and that you spelled it out phonetically!!

That's actually a thing, found on official signs and stuff, like this reminder over the highway downtown near where I work:

I love Boston but we do have the problem of not using owah blinkahs enough...

 

[Jewelj76]

Thanks @Alaskan for the input! I do have to mention, also, that I don't want a poop board. I had a chat with the user CompostKing and I really like his setup. I think he calls it a "manure pile". To let the poop build up but keep mixing it in with the shavings and adding more shavings so it's always dry. Then shoveling it out once in a while when it builds up too much. I have a floor-level "poop flap" opening on the wall with the human door, and it opens out over my compost pile. So I can just push things out with a push broom every once in a while. I'd much rather do that than have to scoop/scrape poop off of shelves every day. I know it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes, but... I just don't want to do it I'm kind of old school. I grew up with farm animals and nobody scooped poop daily back in the day. I can't get used to the idea even with pet chickens. Scooping the cat litter is enough for me, haha. With just 4 chickens, it shouldn't be too bad... I want to try the dry-out floor poop for a while and see how that goes.

So if I don't extend the nesting box top over the pop door to create a poop board, do you think the pop door would cause problems with drafts? And would it be better to put the roost along the left wall or the right wall?

We hung a shower curtain under our roost...it's attached higher on the back wall with clips and lays on the floor up under the other end of the roost. It catches all poop, but allows shavings from the floor to mix with it. We simply unhook the curtain and carry it out to dump into our compost pile. We buy a new one, very cheap, when the other one gets to dirty. Add some pdz to it under the roost to help with smell...we never have a bad smell from ours.

 

[RoosterML]

We hung a shower curtain under our roost...it's attached higher on the back wall with clips and lays on the floor up under the other end of the roost. It catches all poop, but allows shavings from the floor to mix with it. We simply unhook the curtain and carry it out to dump into our compost pile. We buy a new one, very cheap, when the other one gets to dirty. Add some pdz to it under the roost to help with smell...we never have a bad smell from ours.

Pictures please