Deep Litter Method in High Desert Dry Climate w/o Humidity, will it work?

[mamabear72]

Has anyone used the deep litter method that lives in a desert climate and if so how is it working for you?

It's so dry here that we only have moisture, in the form of snow a few weeks here and there in the winter. It rains seldom so we have almost zero humidity. I'm curios if the DLM would work w/ any moisture. I'm thinking the litter would be dry as a bone after a day of extreme heat and not be able to "grow" the healthy organisms needed to mulch the poo. My girls are in a brooder with shaving now and I've noticed with the heat lamp on 24-7 all the droppings harden up like little rocks. I'm assuming the same would happen out in their coop, but I'm a newbie so need some veteran advice please & THANK YOU!

 

[azelgin]

I Was hoping the DLM would work here. It really doesn't. I just get dry poop and shavings, mixed together. There's re no smell, so, that's a plus. The dust does get a little annoying, unless you really add in a lot of shavings as things pile up. I have a big wood chipper (takes a 6" log), so I can make a lot of chips.
The coop(s) gets cleaned out only once a year. Everything goes into a concrete walled bin, mixed with mule poop and watered down, composted for a year and spread out on the garden area.

 

[mamabear72]

I Was hoping the DLM would work here. It really doesn't. I just get dry poop and shavings, mixed together.

Thank you for sharing azelgin, thats what I was thinking