What's your coop cleaning routine?

[underground chickenman]

My coop cleaning consists of adding another 3 or 4 inches of litter when I detect a slight odor. I suppose I will scoop it out one day when it gets too deep, but it's been almost a year. No smell, no flies, no problem.

UGCM

 

[SophieLain127]

Thanks for all your responses. This is what I was going to write tell me if you think it is pretty good.

Daily: remove any litter that is damp or has waste on it.
Weekly: Partial removal off litter and replace with new.
Monthly: Remove all litter and replace with new

Use DE as needed.

Though I will tweak this as I go. This is what I'm thinking of writing in order to keep the city happy. My coop luckily isn't that big.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I have 11 chickens..I have a dropping board under the roost. Every morning, I use a wide putty knife to scrap the roost and 2 kitty litter scoops to get all the dirty litter and poo off the board. I have several inches of shavings and only remove less than a 2gal. bucket full of dirty litter. I fluff and replace when it starts getting thin.. I use shavings on the floor and nestboxes, also. I scrub the waterers and make sure the feeders are full, It takes about 15/20min.

 

[JLS]

I have tried the deep litter method, I do not like it. My ladies start to wheeze even though I followed the directions to the letter. So I use shavings in the coop and nest boxes (my girls were eating the hay that I use to use in the boxes which killed one of them).

I put a thin layer of litter on the floor. Each day I scoop out the poopy shavings under the roosts. I rake some of the left over litter under the roosts and fill in the bare spots w/ clean shavings. It seems to work well and takes only a few moments each day. I rather enjoy spending time w/ the girls