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    Can't seem to win. More sick birds?

    :love Did you try sand in the run? Thats what we are using now and it seems to be ok. Can scoop up the poo here and there. There is this litter type stuff that resembles sand that they use in horse stalls. PDZ Refresher I think it is called. It is excellent on poop boards. No scraping needed...
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    Can't seem to win. More sick birds?

    We had the foot issues before I put down the pellet bedding. I remember having wood chips in the run and the coop was smelling due to the pine shavings. I switched out the wood chips for sand when I read that people experienced bumblefoot on their chickens when they switched to wood chips. So I...
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    Can't seem to win. More sick birds?

    They have approx 250ft of fenced in area to roam. Towards the back are two oak trees and a whole lot of acorns but that's the shaded area they hang out in when it's hot. We call this large area the open run. The middle run is the area with the wire spool. This used to be their main run and it...
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    Can't seem to win. More sick birds?

    The horse pellet bedding isn't exactly new. It's been there about a month and a half. We switched over to it after trying out the deep litter method with pine shavings which was not working out possibly due to the extreme heat we had this summer. The coop was smelling really bad. The pellet...
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    Can't seem to win. More sick birds?

    We first found out that almost all the birds have bumblefoot which we have yet to treat. Then the birds started having the runs which smelled really bad so we treated them with Ampromed for two weeks till that cleared up. Yesterday evening one bird was motionless in the corner of the fence and I...
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