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A cheap trick to stop my chickens from kicking bedding out of the coop
My three hens were making a huge mess, kicking pine shavings out of the run door every single day. I got tired of sweeping it up, so I cut a strip of that rubber matting you use for truck beds, about 8 inches wide. I nailed it to the floor right inside the doorway, flush with the sill. Now when they scratch, the bedding hits the rubber and just falls back inside. It's been three weeks and the area outside is totally clean. Has anyone else tried something like this, or found a better way to keep the litter in?
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black.claire5mo ago
That's a solid fix. A piece of scrap plywood works the same way.
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sarah_brown5mo ago
Love how @black.claire always has the most practical, no-nonsense solutions. My version of "scrap plywood" is usually a stack of old takeout menus and hope. It gets the job done, but with significantly less structural integrity.
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kelly614mo ago
Oh man, black.claire always comes through with the dead simple stuff that actually lasts - meanwhile I'm out here using a folded up pizza box as a temporary fix and calling it "resourceful." Your rubber mat idea is genius though, I've just been wedging a scrap of that anti-fatigue matting from the garage against the door frame, which works okay until my rooster decides it looks like a new toy. Honestly, anything beats sweeping up pine shavings from three feet away every single morning.
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