The girls discovered snow today and decided not to venture far from the coop.
Our story in brief:
I was sitting in the backyard one morning last spring, sipping coffee and gazing at the few green shoots of grass then visible when my son's abandoned wooden swing set caught my eye. I looked at...
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I'm not sure where they came up with that number, as it's a little on the dry side. 60-80% is normally what's recommended. Keep it too dry and airborne dust becomes a problem, keep it too moist and you start having problems with condensation in the winter, moist litter blowing off...
Our "accidental" coop was built from a common structure found in millions of suburban back yards all over the country.
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