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Wowee, what a thing to say!☺️...Awww, you are just sweet.

P.S. I'm one of those barefoot fanatics who hikes up mountains and walks 2-4 miles a day in our desert barefoot. The only stickers out there are 2" mesquite thorns, but I'd have to walk blindfolded to step on one. Strangely, the most treacherous part is crossing my yard-there are horrid grass...

Ah, Bible study in a chair in the chicken run in the evening sounds marvelous! Morning or evening or midday, we all need our soul-soothing relaxation time, don't we? My best meditation time is playing hymns on the harp on the porch with the chickens or on some mountain or by some stream with the...

"But on the flip side you get the advantage of not having to handle poop as part of your daily chores and a significant savings of time overall. :) Personally, I cannot imagine either cleaning my chicken coop before I've even had a cup of coffee in the morning or cleaning ANY animal facility...

You are certainly doing deep bedding right, then! Later: Now that I've read your very excellent article, I see that I was describing with distaste the system I used for decades, deep litter, and you were defending the much better, drier system you described, deep bedding. I'm not sure I could...

Sand and white painted surfaces keep my small sleeping coop super clean in 5 minutes a day. For 37 years I deep bedded with straw or shavings and mucked out goat pen/ chicken house in the barn every couple weeks. I kept it clean enough to get down and help birth a goat kid or sit in the straw...

Yep, Amen and Amen! Sand makes all the difference! Plus painted surfaces. I go out in my pjs before coffee, rake into dustpan, pour onto screen, dump screen in compost, and wipe down the white painted roosts--all in about 5 minutes. I do it again sometimes before their bedtime. So clean I'd...