What to do? What to do?

[BarredBuff]

I have not cleaned my coop since November and their is good reasoning for it every time I get a chance it snows and the poop freezes and then you might as well get a chisel and hammer. The odor is horrible, plus its pilling up, what do you do?

 

[mikecnorthwest]

Burn the whole thing down and start over? I guess you need to clean it.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I haven't cleaned mine out since last spring

NO smells tho. I do the deep litter method and add pine shavings every three to four weeks. WHat do you use for bedding?

 

[teach1rusl]

Suck it up and get out the chisel!!! Then try sprinkling some bedding or sand on the dropping boards...won't stick nearly as bad if you do. I clean daily, so the poop stalagmites and poopcycles don't build up to begin with...the dropping boards make it really quick.

 

[BarredBuff]

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I use mainly straw and sawdust

 

[ChickenCat]

Hmmm, I cleaned mine in November, added 3 bags of shavings and DE. I added DE once since then. I don't have poop boards. I have 25 chickens in an 10 x 12, with free ranging. They have been hanging around the house since there's 12" of packed snow outside

. But, there isn't an odor in the house. Ventilation is open, pop door is open (during day only) and it's gonna be wind chill -5 tonight. Bedding is not frozen, the chickens keep it turned and i flip the bedding once/twice week.
what are you using for bedding?

 

[MareeZoCool]

Do you have a basecoating of straw or anything covering the floor? I have approx. 4" of straw covering the floor of my coop. Makes it easy, frozen poop or not, I just pull it all out with my garden rake, then give the floors a quick sweep, and break open a new bale of straw.
My birds act like kids on Christmas morning when they:cd see that new bale of straw waiting for them!

. Well, that's just my short cut. I use the old straw for grass seed & lawn fertilizer . We're still tryig to coax the field hay to sprout and act like lawns each spring. This is our 4th Spring here! we are so excited, just watching everything turn green!