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Well, there are a handful of reasons I want to use some straw (definitely not all straw!). In the past when we had straw composting in the chicken barn, it produced the most beautiful fine-textured soil. I agree that when used as the sole bedding, it wanted to mat up and create a nasty cap...

Thank you so much for your input, Daisy8s! I am feeling a heck of a lot more "can-do" about this deep litter project now. It's ironic that the weather has recently warmed up considerably: I'm all fired up to place the litter, and today was in the seventies. Well, all of the necessary parts...

Daisy8s, I read your account of the deep litter method with considerable interest. I'm particularly intrigued by the fact that your coop has a dirt floor and was built on an old gravel pile, because I am trying to figure out what to do with my own dirt-floor coop. I want to try the deep litter...