Wanted: POOPY POOP BOARD/TRAY Pictures

[DragonGirls]

Love my poop boards! makes daily cleanup so much easier!

 

[FattySmough]

To all the people who voted 'My chickens don't poop'

You are amazing.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We have 25 pullets/hens, a cockerel and a rooster, in this 8x10' hen house. Do the math, it should be too many for a building this size. But it works well because of the linear feet of roost + poop board, which I absolutely LOVE! (Okay, yeah, I don't get out much!). The poop boards are 16" from front to back and the roosts are, IIRC, 3" above the poop boards. There is virtually no poop on the floor. That's shredded business paper on the floor, DH brings it home from work in big bags as needed. No dust, no fuss, no mites, no stink, no cost. I scoopa de poop into empty feed bags, and about once a week when full, DH dumps it into the compost bin. The poop trays are dressed with construction sand and PDZ.

 

[Hip Hillbilly Acres]

So, lemme make sure I overstand . . . If I am wanting to do permaculture, composting type stuff I want the poop, yes?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So, lemme make sure I overstand . . . If I am wanting to do permaculture, composting type stuff I want the poop, yes?

Definitely yes. But you can't use fresh chicken poop on your garden, it's too hot! You need to compost/age it for a while, possibly about a year. If I had horses I'd mix it with old hay and turn it once a month for about six months, then it should be about right. Alas, my horsey days are long behind me.

 

[R2elk]

Definitely yes. But you can't use fresh chicken poop on your garden, it's too hot! You need to compost/age it for a while, possibly about a year. If I had horses I'd mix it with old hay and turn it once a month for about six months, then it should be about right. Alas, my horsey days are long behind me.

I find that with poultry droppings, if it is worked into the garden soil in the fall, it will be fine for the next year. If it is put on top of the garden soil in the spring, it will burn weeds and everything else.

 

[Hip Hillbilly Acres]

I also saw a vid where it was mixed with water, diluted and used in watering garden. Not leaves but on the dirt.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I find that with poultry droppings, if it is worked into the garden soil in the fall, it will be fine for the next year. If it is put on top of the garden soil in the spring, it will burn weeds and everything else.

Thanks, Elk, good to know. Perhaps we will scatter it over the garden and let weather and the chickens scratching do the tilling through the fall and winter months.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I also saw a vid where it was mixed with water, diluted and used in watering garden. Not leaves but on the dirt.

So, like a manure "tea." Could work.

 

[My Three Chicks]

I only have 4 girls but hope to have the allowable max of 8 next year...already dreaming about what breeds!
The trays have sand and I scoop out every morning.