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    Comment by 'KJ1' in article 'Pelletized Bedding / Shavings'

    This sounds like an expense that is not needed. I am trying to make my chickens the most cost effective possible. I make my own wood chips with a chipper which I need to use anyway. I have talked to people who have had chickens for decades and they use free dry dirt for their chicken coops...
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    Open Bottom Coop

    I am curious how things worked out for you. I live in warm Southern California and I am considering a coop with NO bottom within a secure chicken run. This way, all I have to do is rake below the chicken coop. My run is on concrete where I plan on having a thin layer of dirt which from time...
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    Open Bottom Coop

    Thank you. Maybe I should consider a secure coop within what is hopefully a secure run. I only have five baby chicks, so I guess cleaning it won't be such a big deal.
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    Open Bottom Coop

    Thank you for the reply. the perimeter is protected from diggers with concrete. I have never seen a weasel where I live in Southern California. I will also have an electric wire around it.
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    Open Bottom Coop

    I have heard that snakes will eat something up to 2 to 3 times the size of their head. The snakes we have around here have pretty small heads. We have a variety of rattlesnake, but their heads are pretty small compared to other rattlesnakes I have seen in other parts of the country.
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    Open Bottom Coop

    I'm thinking that the coop inside the completely enclosed run would have NO floor. In other words, the chickens would just walk underneath it and climb up into the roosting laying boxes and roosting bars. Any excrement would simply fall to the ground below where from time to time I could...
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    Open Bottom Coop

    I am just starting to raise chickens and I have a completely enclosed run. I am thinking about a coop within the run that is completely open on the bottom, no wire mesh. I'm thinking that the completely enclosed run is the protection. This would allow me to simply rake whatever falls to the...
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