Recently I have been finding that cleaning the poo out of the coop is a little bit unpleasant. It’s not because I have to pick up the chicken poo – I have got used to that now. The reason that I have been finding it difficult is that I have to hold the nest box lid open with one hand, whilst leaning on the fence in an awkward position and clean the chicken poo out with my other hand (obviously I wear gloves). What makes matters worse is that the awkward position I have to stand in often brings my face quite close to the chicken poop.
Well not anymore! I finally decided to do something about it and added this hi-tech invention to the side of my coop.
This took me a whole 2 minutes to do and I think it may even have cost me just over 20p...
I had some hooks in my garage and decided to tie a bit of string round them to hold the door open. When I was walking through the house to get the string I found this little rubber ring on the floor so decided to tie it on the end of the string to put over the hook – I don’t even know what it is or where it came from. It’s amazing how such a small effort has made my life easier!