Show us your poop! Er, droppings boards.

[destorieswind]

there are some pics of where my droppings go.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=19427

I have the chickens roost over a compost area that is fenced off (it was not complete in the pictures). maybe I could post new pics of it tom.

 

[vermontgal]

Oooo. I like that one of the roost over the compost pile. That's excellent! Unfortunately, it won't work for my winter coop on the second floor of my barn, but I might have to try a variation in the spring.

 

[mtnhomechick]

Every morning when I go out to feed and collect eggs I take my pail and scraper and get all the droppings off. It takes about 5 minutes or less. I don't have to clean the coop nearly as much as I used to.

I dump the droppings in a bigger plastic garbage can with a lid. People come here often and ask for the droppings for their gardens.

The downside is that if it gets too cold the droppings freeze on the boards and I have to wait til it warms up to clean them.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

You talking about a place where POOP is collected so one can determine the health of thier birds ??

In a few words..... EMPTY FEED BAGS. These work great, you can put them down and change them. You can weigh them down with a few stones and VIOLA a day by day ledger on that thing that is maybe the MOST important thing to judge the health of your flock.

You basically know which birds roost where. I have been doing this since this last summer. WORKS !!

 

[ChanceRider]

LOL, you just never know what you'll find when you open a thread on this board.... Chicken Poop Lip Balm??? Hysterical!

Call me lazy, but I just don't want to be scraping poop every day or so. My answer was to install poop trays under the girls roost. Works like a charm... when necessary I can just dump the shavings, DE, and poop into our garden area and refresh the boxes.

Here's a pic of the trays... this was taken the day I installed the new nest boxes, but the pic does show the trays pretty well.

 

[FrontPorchIndiana]

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See, inquiring minds DO want to know.

 

[Sylvie]

Imagine if you will a bathroom sink counter top under the roosts. It is on 2x4's nailed to the wall so I can slide it out to clean. Then I slide it back in, sprinkle extremely generously with shavings and it's done.
Someone had a 10' long counter with 2 sinks set out for trash and I cut the sinks ends off with my chainsaw and used the solid area that was between them as the droppings board.
I gotta get a new camera.

 

[chookchick]

OMG only on BYC! I just had to open the link to the poop pictures, and what's worse--I had to look at every one and read the captions. Now I'm gonna go eat dinner....

 

[ccshambhala]

Here is our droppings box/roost design - working on putting full progression/details pic on my page.... will see how i progress....

in this pic we were still finishing up (and it is poop free

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there is a door thru the wall on the right side of the droppings box to remove dirty litter....

the roosts lift up and the lid of the droppings box lifts to add semi clean litter from the coop floor

side view

with some shavings and chickens (the coop floor does stay fairly clean - but not this clean

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[Guinea Goonie]

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FANTASTIC IDEA !! I have never used the "chicken roost ladders"

I enjoy a big ol' barn at the moment and they either roost in the rafters or on the wire mesh stalls I have for them to protect them from pedators. Alot of silkies will not necessarily roost and form a big "silkie pile" in a corner of the stall.