Short answer first: roughly half of everything your hens produce lands in one place — directly under the roost, overnight, while they sleep. Catch it there on a removable board or a slide-out tray and the worst job in the…
Short answer first: you do not clean a chicken coop all at once, on one schedule. You clean it in layers — two minutes of small jobs every day, a short tidy once a week, a full bedding change every…
Short answer first: the deep litter method means you stop cleaning your coop out and start composting in it. You lay down 4 to 6 inches of dry, carbon-rich bedding, then instead of stripping it weekly you keep adding fresh…
Short answer first: for most backyard coops, the best chicken coop bedding is large-flake pine shavings — cheap to replace, properly absorbent, light to handle and compostable when it is done. The honest one-liners for the other two: straw is…
