Show me your poop boards!

[aart]

If I bring a small step later. A disadvantage of a raised coop.

Bummer.

 

[PouleChick]

I don't do a poop board. 1X2 welded wire under the roost.

This is my plan for my new coop

some great ideas - really love the cardboard boxes - I think I will try to source some of them as my current coop is nearly impossible to fit poop bards into.

 

[BReeder!]

I've been searching for a type of sand to put down in the poop boards that would be effective and that I can easily source again in the future. I decided to go with a tube of sand. They sell these at any home improvement store. I found them at Farm & Fleet though too. A bag of Sakrete Tube Sand weighs 70 lbs and was more than enough. It was $3.99 just. The sand is very course, which makes it less likely to compact, both in the poop boards as well as in my composter/garden beds.

 

[Molpet]

I've been searching for a type of sand to put down in the poop boards that would be effective and that I can easily source again in the future. I decided to go with a tube of sand. They sell these at any home improvement store. I found them at Farm & Fleet though too. A bag of Sakrete Tube Sand weighs 70 lbs and was more than enough. It was $3.99 just. The sand is very course, which makes it less likely to compact, both in the poop boards as well as in my composter/garden beds.

works good in the dust bath too.. I add a lb of elemental sulfur per 10 lbs of sand to keep lice/mites away

I get 9 bags of sand to put in the back of my truck every winter. It goes in wet spots in the poultry yards , dust baths or the garden

 

[thecreekhouse]

My chicken coop is somewhat unique in that the entire floor is a slide out poop board made of tempered hardboard - no litter or shavings in the coop (except in the nestboxes).

Here is some info + some pix:

Tour my Tennessee coop (semi permanent tractor) and run

 

[BReeder!]

My chicken coop is somewhat unique in that the entire floor is a slide out poop board made of tempered hardboard - no litter or shavings in the coop (except in the nestboxes).

Here is some info + some pix:

Tour my Tennessee coop (semi permanent tractor) and run

does the coop wall scrape the poop off as you slide the floor out? then poop just falls below onto the grass/dirt?

 

[thecreekhouse]

does the coop wall scrape the poop off as you slide the floor out? then poop just falls below onto the grass/dirt?

I use a hoe to pull any poop out that doesn’t come out with the pull out floor. All of it just goes onto the grass below.

 

[Jeni1953]

The poop hammock is great. It's heavy vinyl/plastic and with a little jostling the poops pop right off. Then they are scooped into the compost bin. We only have 6 birds so not that big of a chore.

 

[BReeder!]

Pictures of our sand filled board below roosts and a bucket of poop I easily sifted out with a kitty litter scoop. Works great! Only takes a minute to clean and cleaning in the frigid cold (-17 with -50 wind chill the other day) is very easy - except for the poop that actually freezes to the roost... Not sure how to work around that. Heated roost is an idea that was thrown out there, but I'll just wack it with a hammer and chisel if I need to.

 

[Faraday40]

Pictures of our sand filled board below roosts and a bucket of poop I easily sifted out with a kitty litter scoop. Works great! Only takes a minute to clean and cleaning in the frigid cold (-17 with -50 wind chill the other day) is very easy - except for the poop that actually freezes to the roost... Not sure how to work around that. Heated roost is an idea that was thrown out there, but I'll just wack it with a hammer and chisel if I need to.
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Just wait until it thaws, then scrape.

I have an old putty knife that works perfectly.