Posts by chickyboomboom

Quote:Originally Posted by greenpixies chickyboomboom:understandable!Wish I could get my 'hands' on your giant turds, that's half the reason I got chicks in the first place Mine are 5 weeks old and aren't making nearly enough for...

Ooh, the bark does look nice. Hmm... did you have to buy a specific kind? I know that cedar isn't good for chickens. It looks great and clean... and low maintenance. 6 months? Doing nothing? I like the sound of that! I guess the chickens...

Mine doesnt smell- I think the stall dry and DE really help with that... also we don't have extreme heat in Coastal San Diego.  I'm just so tired of stepping in so much POO! I do have coop shoes, but still... it grosses me out!

My girls are usually out for 3-4 hours a day, but when I'm not home they are in their 15 by 5 foot run.  It's grass and dirt.... I'm sure it will soon be all dirt. Anyway, I've just been using DE, stall dry and filling with sand...

I have a fenced run so I planted a topsy turvy garden for them. The herb and tomato ones were on sale at my home depot for 4 bucks so I got 3 of them and they hang from the fence. I planted tomatoes cucumbers, squash, mint and basil. I...

Quote:Originally Posted by ray2310 Soup.  We culled 9 of our oldest last nite. It wasn't easy but for us had to be done.When you say "oldest" what age are they?

So as I'm researching and understanding, you shouldn't use worms and chicken manure together? I only have 5 chickens so it's not so much manure, so I thought the worms would help... but it seems like the amount of ammonia would kill the...

Thank you all! Especially Ridgerunner for your most generous answer! What an education I'm getting from BYC.  Okay, I'll be checking out those sites! Thanks for the advice, love hearing everyone's experiences.

So, with all this great chicken poop... I am thinking about trying out composting. I don't have a very big area to do this, so I would like to get a compact type of bin. Also, I have 2 small children (human kind) and time is not...

This was a fantastic question! Thanks to the OP who posted. Great answers too.  I myself have been wondering what we'll do. We can only have 6 chickens, so keeping 6 that don't lay consistently doesn't make sense to me or my family....