DIY Droppings tray - any ideas?

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I have a home-made Chicken coup made from a small garden shed with an extension at the back, its on legs to be high enough for the chooks to shelter underneath with the original door as the main opening with a pop-hole cut into the side.

At the moment I cover the floor with shavings & clear it up every-other day & replace the shavings completely each week. This is fine for me but I'm going on hols soon & someone else will be looking after the girlies & I'm trying to make it easy for them. Does anyone have any good ideas of a way I could make a removable droppings tray? There are 2 perches, one about 8" high & the other about 12" high (both removable) that run the width. At the mo the poor little hen pecked one usually sleeps on the floor under the perches (not always on her own) so I can't work out if there's a way I can do anything.

Any ideas from you DIY people? :?:

Alternatively, would it still be OK for them to turn the shavings over each day as long as its a thick layer?
 
Hello!
I'm new to all this and only got my chickens on Sunday, I had the same issue and someone suggested a piece of floor lino, this can go up the walls slighly and makes clearing up easy as you just lift it out, tip the poop and shavings into bucket (and hose off if needed) then replace. I'm off to get a free off cut at the weekend.

Let me know if this is any help or not... :oops:

Tori x
 
I have about 30 hen houses, so time is of short supply when cleaning them each week. Alot of the larger hen houses have lino flooring (the poo doesn;t stick to it) and is easy to clean away the dirty shavings, in others I use the brown flooring paper which I buy from b&q and double it over, so when cleaning the hen house just remove the paper with the shavings.
 
Thanks for your help. Lino it is then. Shame, I used to run a carpet shop & I had all this stuff going spare, just when I could put it to good use I haven't got it anymore, think they call that s*d's law!! :D
 
My hubby would just like to point out he put laminate floor in my coop! lol

:lol:
 
I just stick to my sawdust/wood shavings - but clean out the droppings everyday and replenish the sawdust when necessary. :D
 
i just have a piece of mdf, left over from shelves under the perch/roost where they all sleep covered with wood shavings.. i have a stone floor and it's quiet hard to clean the poop of if it dries on, my girls are out nearly all the time so there house doesn't get very dirty so a thick covering of wood shavings and some hay once a week or when it looks dirty and once a month a proper clean down with detergent seems to do the job. i am lucky as my hen house is stone so there not many places for anything nasty to hide.
i how ever know people who only clean there birds out every six or so months(there farmers not chicken farms just general ones) i dread to think how dirty it must get.
 
Tim said:
Laminate flooring... whatever next!

Carpet anyone? :roll:
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mine don't have carpet in their house-they just come into my lounge and settle where they want.Some on the carpet,some on the sofa.........
I bet your ducks like their carpet tiles,my hens like it in my lounge :P
 
Lydia - I just conjured up a vision of your hens making themselves comfortable on your sofa, sitting there all fluffed up as they do. Talk about spoilt! :lol:
 
usually they perch at the top of the sofa,yesterday one was on the seat and I nearly sat on her :o ,thank-god I didn't.She would then have been flat as a pancake :? .
At their bed time,most go to their house but 2 usually come in and settle down for the night.Much to the dogs disgust........they're not really spoilt :D ,just enjoying their retirement ;) .
 
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