The Deep Litter Method: All You Need To Know

Wow! Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to post this! Such brilliant good ideas, and you got me thinking, I'll probably switch over to wood shavings

Excellent indepth review of the deeplitter method..I have used it for years and I can say if you follow the information in this article you will not regret it.

I do keep an eye on ventilation/aeration and the girls do a fine job of turning over the bedding.

My coop has a wood floor and my girls go out daily in a covered run..

Thank you for an excellent and much needed article

Love this idea! Great and important article!

One of the more obvious reasons this is not a reasonable choice is that you have to initially design your chicken coop to be able to have 6”-8” of fill and still function.

I use the Deep Litter Method every winter and this article did an excellent job explaining how it all works. I even learned some new things about it that I want to try this winter. The list of pros and cons was also very helpful in explaining things and added a great touch to this article.

Good info

This has good information and instructions give options for a variety of styles of coop bedding.

Good information and clear instructions for anyone to follow. Thankyou for sharing!

Very informative article.

Informative, in-depth article on the deep litter method.

Thanks for your article, big fan of deep litter method

Not a bad overview, exactly, but it fails to distinguish clearly between Deep Bedding, a dry, non-composting system, and Deep Litter, a moist, composting system. Though excessive moisture was mentioned in the drawbacks it was not made clear that the composting action requires some level of moisture.

Nor was the fact that Deep Litter works better on a dirt floor mentioned or that it's very difficult to get the composting action going without that ground contact.