Article From SubmitYOURArticle.com: Are You Keeping Your Chicken Coop Clean Enough?

Keeping your chicken coop clean is important. You
don't want parasites and disease affecting you
chickens or their eggs. Keeping those issues at
bay will reduce the stress that could affect your
flock. A clean environment always allows for
better results.

We all know that clean is better in everything
humankind does, whether it is the smooth hull on
a sail boat that slips cleanly through the water
after being scrapped clean of barnacles,
replacing a plugged up gas line filter in an
automobile to improve engine speed and power, tap
water filtered of chlorine in a cozy home or a
hot shower after a hard day's work. Don't you
feel better knowing something that needs to be
clean is clean.

Would it surprise you to know that for many
animals it is the samethey prefer clean to dirty
and chickens are no different? Now if you pen
animals in with their own filth they will
tolerate it, but give them a choice they will
choose to be clean and will distance themselves
from dirty conditions. So when keeping animals
penned it is up to you to maintain their living
areas in a reasonable state of cleanliness and
that goes for the chicken coop as well.

Arguably the most important step is to make sure
you replace dirty or damp bedding material as
soon as you find it. Make sure the nesting boxes
are oriented in a way to keep the hens from
sleeping on them. This definitely reduces chances
of waste droppings winding up on the eggs.
Chicken urine isn't a thin liquid, but a kind of
thick paste and as with all urine there is the
danger of ammonia build-up which if left
un-checked can cause respiratory problems in the
birds.

How often do you need to clean the coop? This may
sound flippant, but you need to clean the coop as
often as 'You Need To Clean The Coop'. Sometimes
you will need to do it more often than at other
times. About two times per year you need to do a
thorough top to bottom cleaning. That's when you
pull everything out and scrub down all the
surfaces with disinfectant. Rinse completely and
dry thoroughly going over all the surfaces,
walls, the ceiling, floors, all the cracks and
cerviceseverything! That is really keeping your
chicken coop clean.

Because of this necessity, it is a very good idea
to design 'cleaning access' into the coop before
you build it, to make this part of looking after
your birds as simple as possible.

In conclusionkeeping your chicken coop clean will
make your birds happy and contented. You will
have fewer problems with parasites and/or
disease. You will get better meat and eggs
because your birds living in a clean environment
and will suffer less stress.

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