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    What to put on ground of chicken run?

    My chickens just have dirt in their run. Do I need to put something down? I rake it out once a week, and it hasn't been smelly or anything.
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    Wood shavings everywhere

    But they've been out there since May, and they've just started doing this. The run is covered with the wood shavings - it's like they're just throwing it out the door!
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    Wood shavings everywhere

    I have a deep layer of wood shavings in the coop, and right now the chickens have the coop open so they can go in and out to the enclosed run as they please. They have made several dust baths outside, but yesterday they dug a HUGE hole in the wood shavings. A mass of shavings are outside in...
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    Suspending home made feeders in the coop

    I have 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled along the top, and then inverted onto pans, for waterers and feeders for my chicks. I'm in MA, and while this works nicely during these temperate months, I'm anticipating that I'll need to have food and water inside the coop in the winter. I'd like to...
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