Chicken Coop Hygiene Tips For The Health Of Your Hens

Unfortunately, very often the first and most common reaction to the idea of a chicken coop is the thought of dirt and bad smell. However, this immediate mental association is a signal that leads us to conclude that there are too many poorly managed chicken coops and that too many hens live in environmental conditions that are harmful to their well-being and health.

The demonstration of the "awareness" of the hens towards the importance of hygiene for their health is the natural search for the suitable soil for the daily sand and ash bath , which in addition to being an evident moment of pleasure and relaxation, is absolutely fundamental as health practice to create a barrier against pollen mites and lice. You can obtain more information on chicken coop by browsing Backyard Pets website.

Another demonstration of this innate sense of the hens is their attention to the constant self-cleaning of the nest for laying eggs; and even if it happens that some hens go to lay outside the nest set up by us, the choice will always and in any case fall on natural nests of straw and grass absolutely clean and free of excrement.

It is therefore first of all necessary to keep in mind that the hygiene of the chicken coop is the health of our hens, and we are the responsible and the creators of it.

It is therefore the responsibility of us breeders to take care in the correct way of maintaining the hygiene of our chicken coop, because, as we have just seen, in reality we are the ones responsible for any conditions of dirt and bad smell.

Let us always remember that a well managed chicken coop from a hygienic point of view is not a chicken coop that needs a lot of "care", but a chicken coop with "a strong immune system".

Any hygiene problems in a chicken coop are due, first of all, to an incorrect management of the excrements of the hens present in it and therefore it will be decisive to know how to:

Proper management of nocturnal manure in a mini garden chicken coop;

Proper management of nocturnal manure in a small garden chicken coop;

Proper management of daytime manure inside a garden hen house;

Correct management of daytime manure in the pasture-park area outside a garden chicken coop.

In addition to paying attention to this key element, it is necessary to try to always keep the drinking troughs and feeders well clean which, if properly made, will not present any problems related to contamination with excrements.

Proper management of excrement in the chicken coop

Correctly managing the droppings in the chicken coop means first of all knowing the two types of manure of our hens:

Nocturnal manure, which is equivalent to about 40% of the excrement produced daily: these will be accumulated exclusively in the area used as a night shelter and every night the same hen will accumulate them in the same precise point because when a hen chooses those 10 centimeters of perch where to sleep, it will always go back to sleep in that precise space for life.

In this sense, when a hen is inserted in the hen house, it will be decisive direct it to sleep right away where we deem it most appropriate for the subsequent management and hygiene of the hen house, paying attention to the fact that it takes its right place in the space we use as a night roost, not confusing it, for example, with the nest.