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Hope everyone has a blessed weekend

Hi Sumi, I use the deep litter method and it works really well. I usually let it get up to 16-20 inches deep before I put in the compost pile in the outer run. The chickens love to go thru it. I use either straw or pine shavings. The floor of the coop is plywood with vinyl flooring over it. For...

Grace is like gravy, it goes on everything and makes everything better.

one of my favorite childhood memories.

I think using a trail or deer camera in the coop would be the best way to tell which chickens are laying and which ones aren't.. :)

Hi Sumi good morning. Read that page from your link and that's why it says in Matthew 6:19-21 to Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor...

One of my hens fell and got hung on the perch she hung like that all day until my wife got home to collect eggs. It did turn out ok though, she was able to walk ok.

Amen to that. Good quote! ;)

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying!

@N F C Looks like your gonna get a lot of rain from that tropical storm Debby

Great quotes :)

My work is to proclaim the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. “Prepare to meet thy God” (Amos 4:12), is the warning to be given to the world. It is a warning to us individually. We are called upon to lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. There is...