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  1. beverly evans

    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    This was posted back in July so don't know if you'll see this but whatever. Production Reds are supposed to lay the really big brown eggs, right? It looks like the EE laid the big one? Is the smaller one a pullet egg? Right now my EEs lay my biggest eggs but the ISA Browns, a line of the...
  2. beverly evans

    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    And even if you covered the entire run rain would still manage to wet the ground. I get a bale of hay for starters and spread it around. The rains goes through and it works for awhile. I put the bale on a pallet with a tarp over it and use it til its gone. After the season the hay has mostly...
  3. beverly evans

    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    THX Bee, how's your weather? First day this season I have to put on a jacket to stay outside. My cx don't do much scratching in the coop, mostly outside. I have feed inside up on round pavers so they don't get so much trash in it. If I deep littered anything like what she does the feed would be...
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    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    Hi, Like you I had a barren backyard that over the years the dogs had killed all the grass and the huge Hackberry that had shaded the whole yard had fallen over and died. (The neighbors, not wanting baby hackberrys popping up in their yard, had cut all that grew over their yard off, and being...
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    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    I don't understand how you can manage 24" ? I have a walk-in coop and could not navigate in 24 inches of shavings and poop! My chickens would be under it! Really, do they walk on top of all that! Someone called it "fluffy" which sounds like they would be swimming in it?? Or if it packs...
  6. beverly evans

    Results from First Year with Deep Litter Method

    And here I am throwing scratch and scraps only on the cleanest hard packed ground so that my chicks won't miss a speck of their goodies and not be accidently eating any poop! Who knew? I get a lot of moisture around the edges after a rain and hope by deep litering with peat moss I can avoid...
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