4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[infinitymum]

Hi! We have 9 girls ... only 6 seem to lay daily though. We've had them for 2 months now and they love their 30ft run and converted shed

 

I clean their house very thoroughly once a week but am not sure if I need to do more? I remove their poo out out of blue trays that sit in a row underneath their long perch. The trays are filled with flat newspaper so very easy to clean. I s"Ooops, word censored!" off and remove any excess poo up the ramp/perch/walls. I clear the floor (which is covered in wood shavings). Change their nest box ... they all use the same one but they never poo in there! I then cover the walls, floor and perch with good sprinkling of mite powder ... then retreat!! In the meantime, I clean the water/food feeders outside, fill up the grit tray and remove any visible poo around the run etc. I then go back into the house and lay down new newspaper in the trays, put down a fair amount of new wood shavings and put some fresh hay in the nest box.

 

I read somewhere that I should be disinfecting the house once a month too ... so I am a bit worried I'm not doing enough. What do you do?!

[*mummy_hen*]

Daily my girls house is 'poo-picked' and they get fresh bedding where needed. They then get fresh food and water in the house and outside for the morning.

Cleaning wise, they have a full clean once a week which involves removing all the bedding, using mite powder and once a month we disinfect their house, perches, ladder, and remove all the bark from their run, replace if necessary and disinfect their pen floor before replacing the bark to ensure there is nothing nasty lurking underneath.

 

You weekly and daily routine sounds found, although i would reccommend the monthly disinfectant with something like Vircon as that will kill and bugs/germs lurking and prevent illnesses.