25 thoughts on “how to build a self-cleaning chicken coop”

  1. I made a handy phone app called “Sunset Reminder” to remind you to put your chickens away at night. Find it on Google Play or Android Market.

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  2. Love your coop, thanks so much for the inspiration. I had watched this last week and it gave me some great ideas 🙂 I was lucky to find a free desk on craigslist and that really helped the building process a lot!

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  3. The wire floor is a good idea, but the coop is too light. It needs to be dark inside, for roosting and egg laying. You could have a sliding tray under the coop to catch the droppings, for easy removal. The nest tray/box needs to be stable, not easily tipped or you might find the eggs rolling around on the wire, broken, and that leads to egg eating.

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  4. I was told we have one of the cleanest ‘deluxe’ chicken coops by my brother-in-law. But hands down, you win–our chickens don’t have T.V. That is wonderful !

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  5. y ou need to free range those chickens. Sometimes you can get free bread crumbs at processing plants.

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  6. If you are having a problem with other uploading your videos, I understand you can file a DMCA and get the other videos removed if they won’t do so nicely after asking. Thank you for your video.

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  7. In San Bernardino, there are definitely possums and racoons in the city. I think there are fewer in the desert, but you have coyotes and foxes,etc.

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  8. good chook house, you could could park a wheelbarrow under the perch area to catch the poop and that would save having to collect it, or a shade cloth sling underneath with two wooden battens on either end to facilitate transfer of the poop to where you want it. I love the door arrangement that leads into the bigger yard, 1 door doing 2 jobs :-). Well done.

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  9. Dear… if you have to sweep poop, it’s not self-cleaning.

    I don’t think such a thing exists, really. Most coops have wire for the floor so that the leavings can fall. It’s not that you did a poor job of making your coops, (on the contrary, they’re nice!) it’s that they’re not self cleaning.

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  10. thanks for your lovely comment. great use of the old dog kennels and runs!! hope nan gets lots of eggs!!

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  11. nice coop and lovely hens you have. My nan wants chickens in our garden however she is not planning on building or buying a coop. What she does want to do is transform our old dog kennels and outside runs in to coops. We will have a family member build boxes for the sheds and she said she would put plenty of straw and hay in the outside runs that are connected to the sheds. I like your coop

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  12. Supprisingly the aritficial landscapes and back alleys + trash recepticals= even in the desert give the raccoon menace awesome places to hide/survive. here in mid Cal, the ones that call my neighborhood, home, make their rounds at least every 3 nights. Started with a mama then a mama and babies hitting the cat feeder and tossing the trash every now and then. we had 2 hens pulled thru the side of the coop in one night. fixed with a simple wood fence at least 20 ” on eather side of the roost.

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  13. I just moved to so. cal. and was wondering if there are racoons and opposums here. I have seen no evidence of them here in the desert. I like the idea of the wire for air circulation

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  14. I placed a box of 2×4 lumber under the roosting area. Placed some soil, and added red worms. I never have to clean up the chicken poop. And my fishermen friends loved to pick up red worms from me.

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  15. Here in california that wire bottom not enclosed would prove disasterious as racoons and possums would probably drag the chickens off theyre perch thru the bottom wire piece by piece. I just hope no wallabie goes agro.

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  16. What’s the deal with the TV? Don’t brainwash God’s creatures, they’ll want IPhones and McDonald burgers, and what if they happen to catch “How it’s made: Chicken Sandwich. LoL Thanks for the upload.

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