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your chickens do not need 15 inches of head room. put a 3 or 4 inch board across the bottom of the door . then taper the bedding from the board up to the depth that you want it. that's what I did with mine. it worked fine for over 45 years.

That might be a good idea.

I often use wood chips as the base for my bedding. they make for good drainage. Keeps the top layer dryer. If you get those leaves and twigs in right now, they should be dry enough before you add the shavings and chicks.

I suppose it would work for deep litter. It will get soggy and disintegrate I use cardboard for mulching between plants such as rhubarb and grapes or anything like that. between rows in the garden.. worms just love the stuff.. jiminwisc.....

If you have the time, clean it at least once a week . some people do it daily when they feed the chickens. it takes time for wood chips to become good compost. so if you keep adding the daily cleanings to the compost pile you will be farther ahead with the composting. Straw will compost...

sod sounds like a lot of work. and the chickens would have it torn apart in a short while , if you have any amount of chickens.. however the sod would add some height to the ground. I think river gravel and sand would help keep it from getting muddy. use vast quantities of it...

I have been doing chickens for over 50 years. I am really old school. what is referred to as deep litter today is not what I am familiar with.. we deep litter. and by that, I mean that the "bedding" on the floor of the coop is deep. it acts like insulation if kept dry.. when it gets soiled...

I also get my wood chips from a tree service that comes around every few years and trims for the power company. I take all they will deliver. usually about 4 good truck loads. I have a big tractor and loader and I turn the pile a couple of times during the summer. I use those chips for...

I have been reading forums about DL for a long time. there seems to be no defined definition for it.. as far as I can tell. I have concrete floors in all three of my coops. I always thought I was doing the DL method, but not according to what I have read. it seems that you have to have dirt...

interesting.. I remove everything once or twice a year. wash the windows, hose out the whole inside, walls and floor. and start all over again. I have a few compost piles going at any given time. I like the "raw" chicken bedding/poop for planting tomatoes. I dig a hole with a post hole...

what do you do with the deep litter on the ground? just leave it there forever? all of my coops have concrete floors. I just keep adding straw all winter and then in the spring it all gets cleaned out and put on a compost pile.. I have access to wood chips. I put a 6 to 8 inch layer in on...