Chicken poo!

If you're a keeper of chickens you will know that it's imperative to keep their surroundings clean and pest-free. Good hen-husbandry or housekeeping helps the chickens fight off red spider mite and other parasites which can kill vulnerable hens. On a day to day basis you need to clean off their droppings board (hens do most of their expelling of waster matter overnight hence a board that sits underneath their perch that you can easily slide out to clean is better than letting it drop onto the floor) but in this weather it's proved slightly problematic. I can slide out the droppings board from under the hens' perch but the droppings have all frozen onto the board itself. I've been out there trying to chip off a mound of chicken poo with a trowel to no avail. Sigh!