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Ok here is the one coop/loft; Still more work to be done
Topic Started: Nov 5 2012, 06:09 AM (510 Views)
cspags
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It looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very impressed
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VIOLET12
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Wow! I'm impressed it's beautiful for them. Too bad you can't make a concrete floor with a drain in it so you could just hose the poop down the drain.
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Apparantly concrete is cold and will also breed bacteria. The best is to keep it night and dry and scrape the dried poop out.
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That looks awesome, really and truly.
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I guess that makes sense but you would think that the concrete would be cleaner. Guess breeders have already tried everything.
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Vi, concrete is porous so it can breed bacteria. She would have to clean with bleach all the time to keep the bacteria at bay. Maryann has to take extra steps because of the climate she lives in to keep the pigeons warm. It's much easier for me because I don't get a lot of rain, I don't have to deal with too much moisture that would help breed bacteria. I don't have a floor in my aviary, it's just the earth so it's super duper easy for me to just hose it down and any poop just dissolves into the earth. Because it's so dry out here, I now only hose it down once or twice a week. That way, I don't have the earth moist all the time. And since the chickens scratch all the time when they are in the aviary, it turns the soil and just makes everything fertilizer. It actually smells really fresh and earthy in there even with all the birds (4 chickens, 6 pigeons).

I think Maryann chose the best possible solution for her climate -- it's going to be easy to clean up the flooring and hose it down and yet keep the birds fairly warm. As long as there is enough fresh air moving through her coop, she will have a perfect setup.
Edited by Tishrei, Nov 10 2012, 01:12 AM.
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Vi thats exactly right, for the winter tho I will be soaking some hardwood pellets then drying them out and then putting this "sawdust" down onto the floors as I read that frozen pigeon poop is like concrete and I wont be able to scrape it. So I will do this for winter. The concrete would be cccccole and damp and a disaster. Right now the pigeon in the dog runs have just dirt floor and it has been sooooo wet and rainy here its all damp. I cant wait for snow.
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Maryann, would not straw be easier to put on the floor than making sawdust? I use the straw in the guinea pig cage and it's soooo easy to clean up. I put on a pair of gloves and just scoop it up and put it in the trash. There really isn't anything on the bottom of the cage as it gets caught in the straw. I also have straw on the ground in the aviary ever since I found out how much the outdoor pigeons and my chickens love it. To keep bacteria at bay, I rake it up once a month and put fresh straw down. It's SOOOO easy to clean up -- takes me no more than 10-15 minutes once a month.
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