Since we have had the new chicken shed Emerald comes in every morning when I poop pick and very helpfully scratches around in the shavings.
Yesterday I cleaned the shed out and as soon as I had the door open Emerald was there to help me.
Emerald is going to help me clean out the chicken shed
This is helping isn’t it?
I empty out all the shavings then vacuum the shed before putting in fresh shavings. Being able to stand in the shed makes this so much easier and I can vacuum dust and any cobwebs from the ceiling and walls of the shed and any dust from the floor.
I also scrub all the perches and dry them with a cloth. The perches are smooth which also makes them easy to clean and dry.
Meanwhile Speckles is having a dust bath
I love the intense concentration on her face.
Action shot
I managed to capture her flicking the dirt over her back, getting all the feathers evenly covered.
Topaz takes over the dust bath
Speckles left her dust bath and Topaz moved in making it a bit deeper to suit her.
Speckles comes over to inspect my work
I left the shed to open a new bag of pine shavings to finish and when I turned back Speckles was in there.
Okay, I’ll let you finish
These girls love to get involved when I am cleaning the shed. After I had finished and closed the door they all trooped in to check it out.
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Oddly enough, my Speckles likes to inspect the coop as we clean it out. I just plop a bit of clean straw on her to make her leave. She comes back about a minute later for more inspections, so the straw doesn’t faze her.
It is funny how they like to inspect. They are so nosey and my girls always want to part of anything I am doing in there.
They are so very curious. I thought of Speckles today, actually, when I gave my girls some yogurt – the mess on the black australorps made them look Ancona-like!
You are so right about them being curious. I can just imagine your girl, mine get spotted with white too. They always manage to clean it off eventually though.