M_Struna
Chirping
This is my first winter. I started deep litter in the Fall with hemp bedding. We still have a few good months of Winter to go and I think I may have overdone it. The run is pretty full and the girls have brought up dirt from the base of the run. So the substrate is now a mixture of soil and hemp. We’ve got the sides tarped with a bit of top exposed for ventilation however some snow managed to get in. It seems a little damp and their feet seldom appear clean. I did buy a bag of horse pellets from TSC. Should I just keep turning over the hemp to try and dry it out or should I add the pellets to the mix? I would love to take half the hemp out and add new hemp but we are buried in snow and it’s not feasible. I really don’t want them to get any illnesses. The coop is completely dry with chicken sand on the floor, but this run is making me squirrelly. Am I being ridiculous?
