One good trick in your hen house is to cut the area under your roosting bars out and replace it with good chicken wire. Most of the droppings occur in that area and it makes clean up in your coop far less work. The ground underneath your hen house where the droppings are makes good fertilizer as well and is easy access on the ground.
Another good if you can make it work is to give you access to the nesting boxes from outside the coop by a door or access panel. My current hen house does not have this but the one I built at the last house did and I miss it.
We have discussed doing a smaller run of 12 meat birds but I remember, I think it was, Scott's posts about the plucking process and it just seems like suck an ass beating that we haven't done any. I thought about doing a few turkeys but was recommended against it by some chicken people due to some diseases turkeys can passively carry that are really bad for chickens.
Another good if you can make it work is to give you access to the nesting boxes from outside the coop by a door or access panel. My current hen house does not have this but the one I built at the last house did and I miss it.
(01-05-2023, 01:14 PM)Buzzie mcnugget Wrote: I'm trying to convince myself to do a run of about 50 Cornish cross meat birds next.
We have discussed doing a smaller run of 12 meat birds but I remember, I think it was, Scott's posts about the plucking process and it just seems like suck an ass beating that we haven't done any. I thought about doing a few turkeys but was recommended against it by some chicken people due to some diseases turkeys can passively carry that are really bad for chickens.