Good info, Bee. I'm interested in hearing more about keeping that healthy balance in the birds' environment. What do you mean by not overstocking the soil? How do you keep a good deep litter system going? What will a good deep litter system look like? What do you do to keep good drainage? Keeping the chickens' environment up is my biggest challenge, as soon as I think I've got it down...it rains... and I change my mind.