If you're about to build yourself a chook house, we highly recommend a self-cleaning version where there's no build up of poo at all inside the house. As well as saving yourself time, this creates ...

Built like a brick chook house, Clarendon's historic poultry wing shows the style and priorities of Tasmania's wealthy 19th century colonists. Skip to main content. ABC News Homepage.

Under the chook house we've placed a "poo catcher" (an old bread crate found on the side of the road). This catches some of the poo and makes it easy to drag it out with one quick motion.