Articles by OlympicChick
Square one, decide on the space and build the coop (my coop build):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/hooyah-cheep-sea.75648/
Fall 2018
The Coop
With no idea of what I am doing regarding DLM other than the oodles of reading I did here on BYC, I dig up the grass in the coop, turn it...
The finished coop and run as of April 25, 2020:
A panorama of my backyard chicken area:
Being a Navy family (Hooyah Deep Sea is my husband's "battle cry") had prevented us from setting down roots and having chickens in the past (we both grew up on small family farms), but once we knew...
This may be the longest thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/deep-litter-method.70/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/getting-mixed-up-deep-litter.5493/
It's been 19 months since I got the chickens and DLM is still working great for me. It has become almost completely hands off. I can be lazy about it and have had no issues. Since that first green and brown materials loading in 2018 I've only put in stuff that would normally get composted such...