Poo picking

A year or so ago someone posted a link to an Australian TV show.  The host of the show recommended throwing a chunk opf polystyrene into the hen house to stop them getting bored - because they kept pecking at it until they had eaten it all! 

It prompted a lot of discussion on here of course!  The conclusion seemed to be that while polysyrene is reasonably inert and may not do any harm, there are better ways to stop your chickens getting bored!

I poo pick every morning. Quick and easy. Use old coal fire half-moon rake & small shovel. Hard plywood floor under perches treated with DE. Slopes to place for shovel.
Lifts out for washing and repainting every few months. Shavings for other areas but not under perches. Never any odour, flies or other problems.

i poo pick my entire run and coop every day and i've become an expert on spotting trodden down chicken dodo. i hope it'll become an olympic event. it all goes onto the compost and keeps the run halfway decent.

the run is 30 foot by 15 foot and i have 16 chickens so that's a lot of poo over a year.

...a couple of weeks later - no problem with the polystyrene at all. We don't concern ourselves with hens eating woodshavings.. not so different surely?

As wood shavings are organic if eaten they can be dealt with by the digestive system, polystyrene couldn't. I'm glad it is working for you.