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Was just coming here to ask how deep it should be as the chickens have already mixed those shavings into the soil. Will add a few more inches today.

So today I cleaned out the coop of all the litter. I added a 3 inch layer of soil from our garden mixed with some good compost full of earth worms and other insects in with it then covered with a half inch of pine shavings. Hopefully this works out better

Uploading some pictures now. The ammonia smell isn't really strong. But if the litter is not decomposing/composting all i'm doing is having a ton of dry litter piled up.

I use pine shavings for the litter, and it is completely dry. I turn it every few days with a pitchfork and add scratch grains to it so the girls keep it stirred up very well

Going to change the litter out today and add a layer to the bottom of topsoil with a bit of compost mixed in and see if that works. If not it looks like I will be changing litter regularly until I move them to a bigger hen house in the spring.

Looks like I will just have to change the litter out if DL doesn't work with metal floors

They spend 80% of their day free ranging around the property, the other 10% in the run and are really only in the coop at night

I have 6 chickens in a small coop/tractor which is built on top of a standard lawn tractor dump cart, with the litter being down in the cart portion. It has an enclosed run attached. I have seen a lot of pictures of deep litter coop floors and all have a thick layer underneath the top layer of...