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I add right on top when I add new bedding. This will bury and trap any moisture in the previous layer so that it can help with composting the litter pack. I don't ever stir my litter, though when I started out with DL I encouraged the chickens to do it....but that was before I really...

If you want DL as opposed to just deep bedding, you'll likely not want to use too many pine shavings...they take forever to compost, so when you need to add more for moisture control, it just gets deeper and deeper without really composting down....pretty soon you'd have to shovel it all out and...

You might try DL in the bottom of that setup but I'd not even bother with it in the top....too small for any real purpose.

Maybe you are confused because you haven't read thoroughly. We don't let "crap build up", we encourage it to bind with carbonaceous material so that it breaks down into a different thing altogether...no longer crap, but a well balanced mulch and then, finally to almost a soil like consistency...

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You could just keep the shavings raked from around from that area. That is another thing I do to keep shavings from getting wet...though I have a pretty large coop and this may be impossible for smaller coops. I keep a rake in the corner of the coop and, when I feed, I'll just rake the...

I always place my water up on concrete blocks...it elevates it out of the chips and also, if any is slopped, it just mainly gets on the blocks and evaporates. If it gets into the shavings it will absorb and stay damp longer. This also keeps the water cleaner.

Quote: I agree. I never remove all of mine and I never remove any in my broody pen~ever. Every set of chicks gets a good dose of anything and everything my flock may have to offer. So far that has paid off very well for me.

I'd get some exterior caulking and try to fix that....better to fix than try to adapt. If you have a lot of wet weather, you will constantly fight to keep your bedding dry and that is excessive type moisture, not the usual you would encounter with just chicken poop. If it's just the old...

In the run, you might have better luck using the bark mulch, as I can see your pine shavings getting scratched right out between the fencing holes. The larger pieces of bark can be scratched to one side but are too large to fly through the air and out of the fencing holes, I would imagine. I...