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A simple method for a fresher smelling pen is to turn the soil and if it's overly dry to moisten it a bit. My pen is covered and gets very little moisture. I find that by mid summer it starts to get a little sour and stale smelling. A few times over the summer I water the soil, not much, just 3...

Thanks, DL is certainly wor Great stuff you guys! Love all the different perspectives. My coop is dry too, wood floor. Poop board. I'm thinking of removing it, tired of getting poop flicked in my face when I scrape it off the board. Moco, I have the feeling that the poop in the sawdust...

Thanks for your input. I could try innoculating it with partly broken down compost. This is great to know, thank you. All surfaces have a few layers of paint so I should be ok.

That sounds great Lazy Gardener and I'm definitely considering a change to DL but my concern is whether or not the sawdust adds to the dust problem. I am astonished at how much dust those critters create on their own. The last thing I want is a litter that adds to the problem. With a wood floor...

Do any of you find that the DL method with sawdust is dusty? My chickens are the dustiest creatures on earth. I currently use straw in a 10x12 coop, wood floor, with only 4-10 chickens at any time and they do not create enough moisture to keep the dust down. I live in Alberta, Canada and it is...

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It's good that people are considering the possibilities that eating snow will cause dehydration or lower body temperature, however wild animals from large to small like deer, fox, coyotes, squirrels down to the tiniest of birds get hydrated by eating snow in the winter. I cannot see why a...

My chickens have been eating snow for years and are healthy. I live in Alberta, Canada where we just had some very cold weather, temps around -30 C. The chickens are doing fine just like all the wild birds, foxes, coyotes, deer, moose, rodents and numerous other wild animals who eat snow.

Here in Alberta, Canada the temperatures can get as low as -40 celcius which is -40 F. My chickens acclimatize to the weather and have never received any source of heat other than their own fluffy feathers. My mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother were farm women who...

I'm 1/2 hour east of Edmonton. Love the country life!