Not sure there is a single post. Short answer is start throwing stuff on the floor. A 2 year old can (and does) do it.
What is your most abundant source of brown, high carbon material? Leaves, woodchips, pine straw, hay, straw, charcoal, lawn clippings, branches, tree trunks or mummies? Add a layer. Free is best, but you can pay what you want. Dry is good, but that is self correcting. Open runs get rain fall. You may want to water yours if it's covered.
I have a county dump that grinds/chips yard waste. Fresh stuff in front and aged in the back. I prefer the aged. Free to county taxpayers. I have gotten bags of leaves too. Some people pick them up curbside on trash day.
Google Back to Eden (BTE) gardening. Deep Litter (DL) bedding.
Don't spread the piles out. The chickens EXCEL in doing that. If you must do something, stack up the litter when you feel the need. Nothing is really required. If it stinks, add more brown. If it is dusty, wait for rain. If it turns to moist, rich, black loamy material, Move the chickens (or the litter) and plant a garden.
Enjoy!
What is your most abundant source of brown, high carbon material? Leaves, woodchips, pine straw, hay, straw, charcoal, lawn clippings, branches, tree trunks or mummies? Add a layer. Free is best, but you can pay what you want. Dry is good, but that is self correcting. Open runs get rain fall. You may want to water yours if it's covered.
I have a county dump that grinds/chips yard waste. Fresh stuff in front and aged in the back. I prefer the aged. Free to county taxpayers. I have gotten bags of leaves too. Some people pick them up curbside on trash day.
Google Back to Eden (BTE) gardening. Deep Litter (DL) bedding.
Don't spread the piles out. The chickens EXCEL in doing that. If you must do something, stack up the litter when you feel the need. Nothing is really required. If it stinks, add more brown. If it is dusty, wait for rain. If it turns to moist, rich, black loamy material, Move the chickens (or the litter) and plant a garden.
Enjoy!