soil

Hey guys hoping someone with some knowledge I dont have can help me out I was given some instant turf today for free which i want to place over a muddy area my ducks have made (this is the stuff with live growing grass not the artificial stuff so its on a timeline as its already a few days old)...

Gave my chicks (3.5 weeks old) their first dust bath in a smaller shallow container. After about 15 hours the soil/DE/herbs are completely gone!! I know the dirt can come out while their cleaning and probably because of how shallow it is but I don’t even see any dirt on the bedding of their...

I'm sure this has possibly been covered in all of the years of this forum, however in my amateur googling of the forum, I didn't find it. When I've been dumping my pine shavings with chicken fecal matter on my bushes, these shavings have developed a orange, grey, and other colors fungus I guess...

Is there any considerations I need to make before letting my hens have access to our summer garden space now that everything has just about ended production? We have green bean plants, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, jalapenos, and some squash plants. I want to give them free run of the space but...