We are in an area where the buffalo gnats are really bad, one mile from wetlands and the Mississippi river. For the past 4 or 5 years I have been using cedar bedding to give my chickens, dogs and other animals an "island of sanity" outdoors. They quickly learn that if they get on the cedar the...
My hens went broody in the normal nesting/egg laying boxes, which are about 2.5 feet above the ground. Trouble is after the first few chicks hatch, they get out of the boxes and end up on the straw covered ground and mama abandons her eggs to go stay with them. I tried stapling a cardboard...
