chickmamato7
Songster
I use sand in my run & coop & love it. It takes 5 min to go around with a pooper scooper 1-2x a day and everything stays clean and odor-free. I mix PDZ in with the sand in the coop. The droppings fall in a straight line under the roost, so I just rake both ends to the middle and scoop (2 min job in the morning).See, i thought about filling the coop floor with sand. Figured that would be way easier cleanup than the typical hay/straw. My coop floor is also dirt. I dont want to put to much into my current coop as i will be building a new one, but figured sand would be much easier clean up for now. My roosts are corner roosts, so i figured building some kind of poop catcher would be a little more challenging. I just know im sick of changing hay and shoveling compacted crap and wet hay. I did the deep litter method throughout winter, and that was hell to clean out!