Hi, I clean out the chicken's run and have old feed that may have been wet. I don't want them to get any mold from this, but I'm having a heck of a time figuring out where to put the darned stuff. I don't want to put it outside my fence because we have sheep and again, don't want them to get mold either. I thought of putting it in the compost pile, but the same issue crops up so to speak. What do y'all do with the stuff when you clean up? Thanks,
Can you put it in a trash bag, tie it up and put it in your trash can so that it can be picked up on trash day?
Quote:Haha! That's what I do! Why save it? I don't save it because (I don't know why) I don't find it healthy for my chickens.
Quote:I usually compost stuff. If I have something especially nasty, I walk directly across the road in front of the house where it's a fifty foot, steep, rocky incline down to a marshy area. I then wing it over the edge. There's a groundhog that lives in the rocks halfway down that roots through whatever rotten stuff I've thrown over.
Back before we built the feeding station outside the coop, the spilled feed would get scratched into the dirt floor along with all the chicken poop, old bedding, etc. (In my first coop, water ran through the floor during a rain, too.) When I shoveled out the floor it would stir up a hideous smell like rotting meat. And behind me would come all the happy chickens, digging up that good ol' marinated corn and chowing down. Never slowed 'em down a bit. Of course, I try to keep them away from anything that's gone really bad - I throw it into the compost bin. Since chickens can fly, this is just a gesture, but it makes me feel better The chickens never do read the same books I read.
