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Cleaning your Chicken CoopKeeping your Coop clean means healthy and happy chickens!One of the things which sorts the men out from the boys with keeping chickens is the cleaning (although reading the Forums, it is apparent that this jobs is usually done by the lady of the House!!). It can be quite demanding especially through Winter when the rain turns to mud, it's cold and because the Chickens are spending more time in their Hen House because of the longer hours of darkness, there is a lot more poo around! Although Chickens are pretty hard creatures and will adapt to almost any situation, it cannot be stated enough that owners should ensure their Chicken Coops are kept clean. Cleaning inside the Chicken HouseThis is a all year round job. In the warmer and milder month's, Sheds, especially wooden one's, are prone to getting Red Mite and other bugs. Because Rats and Mice are rather led to where there's Chicken Feed, underneath the Chicken Shed can be an ideal nesting place and invariably, they tend to use the Shed as a short cut. One of the worse sights is opening the Shed door to find a Rat jumping out beside your feet! You will see you have Rats and Mice going around by spotting their poo on the floor amongst the wood shavings, so make sure this is replaced on a regular basis. For general cleaning and prevention of Mites and other bugs, you can clean your house out with specialized Treatments such as Stalosan, Netlex Viratec, Poultry Shield and other such products. These can all be brought from all good Stores such as Wells Poultry (see lower left). For cleaning, plastic is best, so if you have an Eglu system or use an adapted Plastic Bunker, there's nothing like a good hose down and spraying with Disinfectant when finished. Although it sounds a bit on the big side, not a corner, nook or cranny should be left uncleaned, these are the places which become havens for parasites you don't need, certainly the Chickens don't! A lot of cleaning work time can be saved by putting bins / baskets below the perches as in the picture top right.
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