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I think this - not use DE- is typical something that everyone is repeating without experience. I never had any problems with DE mixed with a lot of sand. I also make a ‘paint’ with it , to treat the walls and cracks. I use it for many years now, to prevent a red mite infestation. Even chicks...

When I clean out the nest box completely and make new bedding , I put a layer of sand mixed with a little diatomaceous earth underneath the shavings/hay. The effect of DE is that it kills the larvae of the red mites. Not the adult red mites or the red mite eggs. Maybe it helps to keep the red...

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Sorry to hear this. Hope it will work out one way or another. Two things you can do imho: Buy immediately a prefab and move the broodies to the new coop. But chances are not small the broodies wil reject the new coop. Buy an incubator and everything else you need for chicks. If the broodies...