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[danand]

I need to try some fermenting again. Got out of the habit. I did mine fresh each time, I just liked it that way! Are you a little impatient?!!

 

[Crafty chick]

Danad~ I just love little fuzz balls!

 

[Crafty chick]

Ha! Danand.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I started giving mine the fermented feed. The big girls and Mr. Peeps love it... the chicks will need to learn this is what's for dinner! My silkie chick LOVES it though. It stands in the middle and eats as long as there's food in the container. So I just add to the bucket as I take it out? Seems easy. Going to candle tonight. Hope for movement!

Its really worth the effort, yes just keep adding, leave a little each time and you don't have to keep making it.
I keep fermented grain separate in case I do run out, and ferment for all my critters.

Wow lots of new members! Welcome ALL!!!

I did some more work on my coop today! Nice weather finally! Here is a few pics with my helpers.

I still have to finish the door obviously.

My little helpers!


Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me? Well if your going to stare take a picture it will last longer!

Where did that little bug go? I know its right around here some where!

Helpers are lovely, and the coop looks GREAT!

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I also have a converted shed that I put a piece of vinyl flooring down. But I DO deep litter.

When I started it, I got a couple wheelbarrows full of dirt right from the garden and put it down as a base layer. (Amount you use depends on the size of the shed, of course!) It wasn't a lot, but it was enough to get whatever was in the local soil - including pill bugs, worms, everything - in the coop.

Then I put the litter over that.

First few days they went to town digging around in there to get at the bugs and stuff. It was great fun! I haven't put more dirt in again since that first time, but when I take part of the litter out a couple weeks down the road here, I may put a little more fresh dirt in.

Where there's a will...there's a way

Probably not as good as a dirt floor, but I think it DID get things started in there and it sure had a medium for multiplication with the droppings.


ETA: When they were digging around in the dirt and shavings it mixed everything in. It still does get mixed in when they dig around but a good deal of the dirt is at the base layer. I usually do a bit of stirring up with a small rake or garden shovel at least 1x week too.

It will work on a concrete floor too! That's whats in my shed converted to a coop. Deep litter is the only way to go, lot less work.

 

[CluckAcres]

Is anyone elses flock starting to moult?

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Kinda hoping mine do, my rooster is getting ragged tail feathers!

 

[CluckAcres]

Kinda hoping mine do, my rooster is getting ragged tail feathers!

Some of mine are. My duck is looking awful. Some of my hens are even loosing their feathers. lol

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

my drake looks ragged too. Its been so warm out, I have had them out ranging all day, they sure enjoy it!

 

[bradselig]

Got the coop all cleaned out and sprayed with liquid Sevin on the roosts and walls. Powder was spread in nest boxes and floor and they all got powdered up themselves. Hope to knock these mites out quickly. Parents are saving ashes from their wood furnace to use as a preventative measure.

 

[bradselig]

Thanks all for the DLM info. Got me thinking of trying it now.