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    Chicken tractor in the rain.

    Hey :D Ok, its very much like this one, except the house is on the ground, not elevated like this one. It has a floor inside and always has straw. We keep a tarp over one of the little yard modules, but I think both need to be covered when it rains because there is often straw there as well as...
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    Chicken tractor in the rain.

    We have a small chicken tractor with one hen left. She's at least 6 years old. We live in Oregon and are wondering if we need to keep her little "yard" covered when it rains. We sometimes have straw in there, and there is always straw in her covered area for warmth. I say keep it covered, he...
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    Compost (sort of) safety

    We switched to using chicken layer crumbles for our cat litter a couple months ago. We wanted something compostable, and cost effective. It works great! So my original intention was to compost it in the Humanure style, aka really hot compost that kills all the bad stuff. But I got to...
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    Chickens and Compost

    Quote: We have 2 old bathtubs set up with worm farms, and love it! We live in Oregon, so it rains constantly. We leave the old drain hole (with mesh over it) open all the time with a 5 gal. bucket under it...constant compost tea! The items you mentioned would absolutely work for it. Even our...
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