I recently put dropping boards on top of the pine shavings underneath the roost in our coop. How often does everyone clean them? It's only been a week and it's already smelly and attracting a ton of flies.
Had my chickens for aprox. 5 weeks purchased them as 8 week old pullets from 2 different poultry farmers in Victoria, Australia.
my chickens are
Black Orpingtons with a Silverlaced Windegote rooster
1x ISA Brown hen
not having any real issues except very high food consumption, almost gone...