Thats not bugs OR snow 🤧

[Debbie292d]

how does one clean up the poop in the coop when using pellets?

You don't. It dries out. I can walk barefoot in my coop and not get poop on me.

As the pellets absorb the poop and dry it out, they start breaking down to sawdust. In about a year in our one coop, they get about 80% sawdust and then we haul it out in a wheelbarrow, dump some in the garden, some around the trees, some in our compost bins, etc.

 

[Echelontheory101]

The dust is basically non existent tonight! Guess I need to go in there with a damp towel once a week and give everything a wipe down

 

[Sydney65]

That might be worth trying this winter but I love the sand the rest of the year. Ill look into it!

It could also be chicken dust and not sand dust but dont really have a way of knowing that. Maybe I'll cover the floor in tarp for a few hours this weekend and see if the dust is still flying around like that. If so its the chickens not the sand and then can try and find a solution from there haha

When I remember to, I have disposable masks to wear while working out there. It's either that, or a sinus wash..or hold my breath. Our runs sound similar, & dust is part of the joy of having birds. Now, I have guinea, not chickens. But I'd be concerned about a tarp creating a slick surface causing potential leg injuries? That might just be a guinea concern.