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I don’t know that there is a benefit to deep litter and hardware cloth floor. It’s just kind of where I’ve ended up, for now at least. Sounds like the two don’t mesh well. For now, we’ll try this and when I clean it out the first time, I’ll probably put a floor in. I do plan to deep litter the...

Thanks all! Ok so I’m in Virginia. My coop is about 6x6’ and I’ve got 5 birds. So far, since I needed to get the coop ready for them before I had time to install a floor, I’ve put a thick layer of straw covered by a thick layer of hemp bedding. We will see how it goes, but I think it’s likely...

Thanks! There is plenty of other ventilation in the coop. So what I’m hearing is that there isn’t anything to potentially be gained by having the hardware cloth kind of ‘sift’ the broken down layers of litter into the ground below?

Hmm, interesting idea! It’s 1/2 inch hardware cloth now.

hi all, just finished our coop and due to some conflicting advice, we ended up installing a hardware cloth floor inside the coop (coop is raised off the ground about 2 feet). However, I had wanted to use the deep litter method in the coop, and in fact just came home with a couple of bales of...