Our shop vac has had a workout pver the last few days. Yesterday, I cleaned the cluttered garage; the day before, I cleaned the chicken coop, and today I cleaned our filthy basement. All were dirty, but without question, the coop was the nastiest and least pleasant of the three.
The bulk of the problem stems from the filthy beasts pooping and flinging litter (pine shavings) into their water. Then the water gets gross and spills into the coop. As a result, we end up with matted down, wet litter breeding all sorts of foul disgustingness. It was quite the challenge to get it all up, and I evicted a number of multi-legged, creepy-crawly bugs from beneath the damp pile of litter.
Once I got it all out and santized, I let it air dry before putting in less than 1/2" of litter. That's it; that's all they get this time. No matting down. The 5-gallon waterer is now in the run and not in the coop. I don't know what we'll do come winter, but for now, everything is much cleaner.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
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