This Genius Chicken Coop Design Never Needs Cleaning (The Old Scottish Shepherd's Trick)

📗 Get My Complete Poultry Guides Here: https://angusdouglaspoultry.com/ 🔗 Keep Your Flock Healthy And Cheap To Run — My Guides: https://angusdouglaspoultry.com If you're hauling out wet bedding every few weeks and getting a face full of ammonia when you open the door, the problem isn't you. It's the way the coop was built. In this video I walk through the six things in my grandfather's hen house that did the cleaning for him — no electricity, nothing clever, and one spring clean-out a year. I cover the deep floor built from four inches of pine shavings up to a foot by midwinter, the scrape board under the perch, the roof gap you can cut in an afternoon, why bare earth beats plywood, and why the feeder and drinker must live outside. I also show you the soil thermometer a foot down in my bedding. Outside it was about two degrees that morning. Under the hens it read just over twenty, and there was no smell at all. There's a mesh apron you must not skip if you take the floor out, and a warning about lime and diatomaceous earth that undoes the whole thing. If you're tired of the bedding bill, the mites and the coughing birds, start with the two jobs I set you at the end — both free or near enough. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – The Thermometer In The Bedding 01:22 – Do This One Thing Today 02:56 – Why Flat-Pack Coops Fail 04:05 – Number One: The Deep Floor 05:33 – Two Mistakes With Deep Litter 06:38 – Best And Worst Bedding 08:01 – Number Two: The Perch Board 09:32 – Red Mite And Board Mistakes 11:18 – Number Three: The Roof Gap 12:45 – The Mistake That Kills Birds 14:30 – Number Four: No Floor 15:58 – The Mesh Apron Against Foxes 17:38 – Number Five: Food And Water Outside 19:03 – Frozen Water In Winter 19:54 – Number Six: One Spring Clean-Out 21:17 – Using The Muck Safely 22:07 – Troubleshooting Common Problems 23:03 – The Coop I Got Wrong 23:58 – The Six, Summed Up 24:46 – What The Thermometer Read 25:28 – Your Homework This Week #ChickenCoop #DeepLitterMethod #BackyardChickens #ChickenKeeping #CoopDesign #PoultryTips #HenHouse #Homesteading #RedMite #ChickenBedding