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Ah darn, not being dry enough is probably my issue. Whether its rained the day before or not, every morning I have to put my rain boots on to walk through the grass because nightly fog re-wets everything. The ends of the grass are dry come afternoon sun but not the fallen leaves.

A bit of a random question, but how high do you have the mower set for that and/or do you rake a bit first to fluff the leaves up so the leaves are easier for the mower to get? I have been trying to chop/collect leaves with my mower and its very hit and miss. I usually mow at 5-6" because I keep...

I started doing that recently in my run too - initially I did it to give them something to do for longer when I had to stop letting them forage outside. Now that you mention it, the substrate has definitely improved since I've been throwing the scratch on areas that aren't bare soil (which is...

Oh man. I just discovered that not only did my chickens do better than my compost pile with what's inside their run, they also somehow composted stuff for about a 12" radius around the outside of that - where they don't even go. Not exactly motivating for carrying on tending to my lackluster...

I'm definitely going to need at least two; could easily see three if the current one is super slow. I'm hoping the one I've got will fill up before snow starts and then I'll need to start another in a better location. My husband suggested clearing a patch of thicket on the other side of the...

Yesterday I added the old mucky dried grass from my run and did my best to turn the pile. I found a couple dry patches in it - so I guess that's part of the problem. My area had so much rain I didn't think that would be possible and was always more worried it would get water-logged because it...

Just had a thought that may be a bit out there...I've got a forest with a lot of decaying fallen trees here and there. What if I add a piece of nasty, almost-broken down wood to the pile to try to get more wood-eating micro fauna going in the pile? I worry it would attract animals to the run...

Thanks! I should have a good bunch of green to toss on soon when I clean out part of the run that hasn't been breaking down much. Maybe that will get it going again. I use grass clippings in the run so it will be a good dose of almost entirely a mix of that and manure. It's just weird that...

In July I set up a compost bin for a mixture of grass clippings, veggie scraps, and dirty litter from my coop (roosts are too low for deep litter; had a chicken that couldn't jump onto them, long story). I took a spare 10ft roll of hardware cloth and made a circle out of it to hold everything...