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MaggieRose2001
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So… the idea is to just keep adding different organic materials - pretty much whatever you can get your hands on? Is it like the deep bedding, where you just keep layering over the poop and it just kind of breaks down on its own?I live in Michigan, which is a very different climate than @3KillerBs. I do essentially this same thing. I add dry leaves in the fall, garden weeds this time of year, grass clippings when we have them. I'll be adding some wood chips later this year, when we have some trees taken down (I'll let the chips dry out before putting them in the run). I plan to get a bale of straw to add to the run this fall too.
I scoop up some of the bigger poops in the run to add to the scooped poop from the coop, which I add to my garden compost bin. (Mostly so I don't step in the big ones between the coop door and run door.).
Unless a chicken has just dropped a cecal poop, neither my run nor coop smell.