Ok cool. Planning on getting a few yards for the rest of the yard so I'm sure by the time I've moved it all it will be nice and weathered.
Oh heck no ...I am not dealing with this again this summer.
Cedar weathers very slowly. If it's all bark and no wood, it shouldn't have any resins or VOC's
Yeah only the bark. I might try coconut husk stuff in addition to or instead of cedar bark if I can find a semi local supplier.
Good luck
Deep litter? I don’t know how absorbent pine bark is, but I use pine shavings, pine straw, spoiled hay and straw. Those are the things available to me. Others use fallen leaves also. It has to be absorbent carbon materials and it seems to me that a combination works best. If you start to smell the ammonia, then you need more carbon. I use this in the coop and the run. In the run it will compost. If the coop has no floor, it will compost there, too. Clean out once or twice a year and spread the composted litter wherever you need fertilizer. If the coop litter isn’t composted yet, you can add it to the run or put it in a compost pile to finish.it’s getting there! it took us about 5 hours today to stretch and secure the netting!not totally enthused about my choice....it’s a smaller gauge but not as heavy duty as the net in my chicken area. (difficult to find good stuff from amazon vs hands-on purchase) would’ve made more progress but my sons decided tonight was when they wanted to see the new avengers movie!!
(and we ran out of staples) so tomorrow we will finish the hw cloth, gate and till/level soil at border fence! oh and everyone is constantly complaining about the stench from my chicken area so we had to spread more pine bark, sand, and remainder of PDZ. There has to be a better solution to dealing with the odor of an uncovered run......???
My Mexican told me the same thing and guess who put pennies in ziplock bag with water hanging in her coop.Good luck
My cousin's Mexican like 3rd cousin told him to put pennies in bags/jars of water and they magically reduced in numbers....
that’s kinda how i lost the 2nd one.....i opened the hutch expecting to find the little brown one dead because of that cold rain/wind/snow mix that came in and killed a few of my coturnix outside. But in actuality the buttons did really well in the outdoor hutch as they had the enclosed area where their food and water was to huddle in draft free. As i was cleaning the run today, I saw a small hole in the dirt at the bottom (just big enough for a button to squeeze through). the brown one was the most adventurous of the bunch so I’m pretty sure that’s how it got out. Now whether it flew out of the run like the 2nd or simply got squished and died in the run is still unknown. just like my “unfortunate” learning curve with coturnix......if I ever decide to hatch buttons again, I will definitely be more prepared with secure indoor housing!
