Will there still be a manure smell?

[WingItRanch]

I honestly have never smelled anything bad at the chicken coop. As long as you use the right materials and keep it clean. I even do the deep litter method inside the coop and it never smells.

 

[Bo555]

I honestly have never smelled anything bad at the chicken coop. As long as you use the right materials and keep it clean. I even do the deep litter method inside the coop and it never smells.

What material are you using?

 

[WingItRanch]

What material are you using?

I use pine shavings inside the coop and pine pellets in the run. I'll scoop the poo out of the run but in the coop, I leave it and just turn it everyone once in a while and add a sprinkling of more shavings. Then twice a year I pull it all out for garden composting.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Chicken coops only smell bad with poor husbandry practices. Put your coop on higher ground, keep it dry, don’t dump food scraps or chicken feed on the ground, turn the bedding and top it off with some fresh bedding every once in a while. When chickens smell like pig styes it is because they are kept like many people keep pigs- in wet muddy areas that are not cleaned and food is being dumped directly onto the ground (the food is what really creates the rancid smell). What most people don’t know is that pigs are actually very clean animals it’s the people who care for them that determine how they end up smelling. I raised pasture pigs that I cleaned their pens where they slept regularly and any food went into a trough (not the ground) that got hosed down once a week. No smell and I take care of my chickens along with all of my livestock the same way. I have people come to my farm and every time ask how everything is so clean with no smell. My answer every time is “good husbandry”.

Edit: I also wanted to add that when we moved in the guy who owned the place before us kept pigeons. It was absolutely nasty and so was his coop. I cleaned out a foot and a half of pigeon poop out of that coop and it smelled rancid. Again it’s how you take care of your animals that determines how clean they are.