CHICKEN COOP CLEAN OUT 🧽 🐓 💩 Our big chicken coop clean out happens 2x a year, and a fall clean out is important to get the chickens ready for the fall and winter. I wanted to make sure the coop was nice and clean to support the increased waste load. Shorter days means the chickens will be in the coop more and that means more 💩. We utilize the deep litter method which is a lazier yet effective way of managing chicken waste inside the coop. You start with a small layer of bedding material, an

Keeping the chicken run and coop clean and smell free is a whole job. We use a “deep litter” method in our run. I add in mulch regularly and they break it down. Every few weeks I go in and pull back the top layers of mulch to get down to the composted material. So far I’ve been using the compost in my back areas of the garden. This works for us. There are so many different materials you can use in your run like sand, gravel, hemp etc. The most important thing you can do for smell is keep the run

Our chickens enjoy this as well. #composting #compost #chickens #kitchenscraps | Love in the Dumpster

They will scratch it apart drying it out, and eat all the bugs. Compost piles need the bugs, and needs to stay wet #compost #chickens #farm #ranch #homestead | C&M Ranch