Hello to BYC! Introducing myself today. I am fairly new to backyard chicken farming. I have 6 hens and a Rooster. One of the girls is a bantam, as is the rooster. "The Team" is: Buff Orpington, Buff Brahma, Laced Golden Wyandotte, Americuana, White Speckled Sussex, and my Bantams- Blue...
Thank you so much for this info! I, like you, have a small flock: 6 hens and a rooster (two of these are bantam), and have been using cedar shavings as I heard the scent deters pest. But it gets pretty stinky in there, and as you say, the droppings just stick to it, and the girls just fling...
