Chicken owner for approx 4 days. We aquired 6 hens & 2 roosters from an old family friend. I currently only have 2 of the hens (dominickers) laying each day. The gentleman told me the others were still young and had not started.
My dad had built my girls a playhouse
a few years back & they were not interested in playing in it so we converted to a coop & got us some chickens. We kept them in the coop for a day & now they are free ranging during the day in a fenced pasture.
Everthing seems to be going WONDERFUL! EXCEPT..........We started with hay but we are having awful problems with flies even though we have raked & scooped & scraped the poo out. I see other pics that look so clean. Are the flies normal because I live in south georgia or is there better suggesstion?
What are some suggesstions for this type coop with a wooden floor? sand? sawdust? fly control? HELP!
My dad had built my girls a playhouse
a few years back & they were not interested in playing in it so we converted to a coop & got us some chickens. We kept them in the coop for a day & now they are free ranging during the day in a fenced pasture.
Everthing seems to be going WONDERFUL! EXCEPT..........We started with hay but we are having awful problems with flies even though we have raked & scooped & scraped the poo out. I see other pics that look so clean. Are the flies normal because I live in south georgia or is there better suggesstion?
What are some suggesstions for this type coop with a wooden floor? sand? sawdust? fly control? HELP!