Chicken bald back

[madchickenlady]

I am bracing myself to go out and clean out the hens. It is sooooo cold here, and I am feeling very reluctant. I need to clear out the run and put down nice cosy easibed as well as clearing the coop, although I won't scrub it all out in this cold. Is everyone else doing a Christmas clean?

[Daphne]

not yet - I'll have to physically remove the LF orps in order to do it; they're so pathetic they are refusing to leave the house! However, I am tackling my own house in preparation for an Xmas visit from my mother - this is much worse

[CluckyBucks]

Yes, be warned, the poo will be frozen solid!!

 

I clean mine out once a week, sun or snow

 

xx xx

[C&T]

I've got to do ours...

 

I am not looking forward to it - so cold!

 

I admit I went for the easy option yesterday, and just emptied the poo tray and put some fresh stuff in their nest box. But I do need to give it a scrub...

 

If only someone could "invent" non-pooing chickens - they would be a very rish person!

[Valkyrie]

Must do it soon. Raining at the mo - also run must be done for sure.

[Space Chick]

Mine will be done on Weds whatever the weather

[Clur]

Got to do mine tomorrow. I raked over the run yesterday but tomorrow I need to put down the rest of the easibed/auboise and also clean out the eglu.

[madchickenlady]

Just back in and defrosting! Brrrrrr! I have a wooden coop, and always brush out the poo daily. I had to clear the run, though, as they were incarcerated for a week having medicine I literally had to chip some of the easibed away from the slabs The damp and then freezing weather had stuck it solid. No wonder my ladies have been staying indoors I feel better now it's done, though, and like the idea that they'll be warm and cosy tonight

[Plum]

There is no way I am taking a bucket of water to the cube in this weather

[chickenNutter]

Always do my big clean out on a Sunday, but must admit I just emptied the poo tray and nest box area and raked over the easibed in the run as quickly as poss yesterday as freezing cold sleet all day.

 

My girls saw snow for the first time today and were horrified. Refused to come out of the (covered) eglu run at all. Ruby tried one pace out of the door, hopped from foot to foot and rushed back inside hurrying Mabel and Hetty with her. Looked absolutely furious and is obviously blaming me personally for what has happened to their garden.

 

Made it clear that evening porridge and corn were absolutely no compensation whatsoever.

[ali-s]

I did the Eglu Christmas clean on Sunday in a couple of inches of snow. Got halfway through the job when the snow appeared which soon turned into a blizzard, I retreated to the house for half and hour. When I got back outside the soapy water had frozen on the Eglu, the job was finished while it was still snowing.