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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    To remove all doubt I'll conduct an experiment and not give them anything additional beyond free-range and feed and see what their poo looks like every morning. I just updated my profile, but I'm near Albany, NY. Winters have been mild here for the last decade - I feel like the days of 15...
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    This is a couple shots of the coop to see where the ventilation is. Like I said, it's all on the 3 walls opposite the roosting wall and the peak of the roof goes up another 4 ft above their head (idea being the hot air/smell rises above them and goes out the gable vents)
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Oh PS - at least 1/3'd of all the poop on the shelves is quite sloppy (not like diarreah, but definitely wet)...the other 2/3rd's of the poop is fairly dry and structured. Sounds like you were saying the more wet the poop, the more naturally stinky it will be.
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Oh? I clean the poop shelf every day because I thought that's what you're supposed to do with them. The hens are 4-5 months old and free-range most of the time, they eat our dinner scraps a few times a week, and I just started getting them on organic feed crumbles (slowly mixing in with their...
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Thanks for your input, greatly appreciated!
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Nat, All I'm saying is with bedding, the poop falls to the floor, they kick the bedding around to cover it up, and then it smells decent. I think the simple fact that 12 hours and 9 chickens worth of chicken crap out in the open and not covered by bedding is going to stink - whether its in a...
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Kusanar - so you're of the opinion to slowly add poop/carbon/water over time and let it fester slowly as I fill it up with a little more poop every day?
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    Thanks for your input on the composting - that was my understanding as well. I'm hoping its not ventilation and I'm just not used to the full-force of fresh poop. See my attached coop pic. I've got 3 windows, 2 gable vents, (the chicken door of course) and the main/big door stays open...
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    Poop Shelf and Tumbler Composting Help Please

    This might be 'gardening' category - but I'm not sure since it has to do with poop shelves. I have a potentially dumb but hopefully simple question that I may already know the answer to, I just want some opinions. I have installed poop shelves and have inherited a compost tumbler. My plan...
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    Free Rhode Island Red Rooster (13 weeks old) - Albany, NY

    Yes just yesterday in fact - one of our family members from a different part of the state wanted him. Thanks!
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    Free Rhode Island Red Rooster (13 weeks old) - Albany, NY

    At 13-weeks old now, looks like our RIR hen is a rooster. We knew it was coming from the pic below (a few weeks ago) but being new chicken owners we were holding onto a hope that maybe some how it was just a 'different' hen. This morning, it's clear he is not by the crow he developed...
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    Review by 'kpetronis' in article 'Sour Crop, Impacted Crop, Doughy Crop - Prevention and Treatments of Crop disorders'

    This is by far the best article I've read. It's so hard to get through all the garbage on the internet to find something useful. I loved how discuss the whole anatomy *AND* address the various 'levels' of crop symptoms. I have a question for you though: For sour crop/yeast treatment - you...
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