Run is 10’x12’x4’. I added shavings, nuggets, chips, and hay so the floor now has about 3-4” of material above the dirt. I gave them a hay bale because I had nowhere else to store it for the nests and they have it pretty well spread now. We are sub tropical so never too cold, typically hot...
Thank you, that’s what I was unsure of. I have a very full schedule and if I were home more during daylight hours I’d be out there all the time, but my routine was taking me a few hours every Sunday and it kept a lot of other things from getting done. I’ll make sure to do more scooping rather...
Thank you for your feedback. I would read the posts about coop maintenance and see so many say they clean their coop daily. I was under the impression there should never be visible droppings in the coop. The amount of cleaning and cost was just not maintainable for me with the way I was...
I’ve made some adjustments to my coop maintenance in the past two weeks hoping to ease the amount of time I spend shoveling and raking along with the amount I have been spending on bedding.
Previously I raked out my run to bare dirt and shoveled out the top layer every 3-7 days. In the coop I...