Introduction about me and my Chooks :)

[Jenbirdee]

hi! glad you joined us.

 

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens, And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska! Thank's for sharing the picture's your Chickens are Beautiful! The Best of Luck with your Flock.

 

[Tookie]

Hello, welcome to BYC! So glad to have you here.

 

[N F C]

Hello, it's nice to have you here!

 

[Poultry Showman]

Hi! Can't wait for you to get chickens! Makes a person happy to have such innocent and hysterically funny creature to have! It is such a blessing to be able to have chickens. Even roosters

 

[Nomadicus]

Hello and Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Glad to have you in this fun and poultry loving community.

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to the BYC community.

 

[Australorp Chook]

Thank you all!

 

[HowIsItDone]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.


You can drop the 'loaf' off this statement and it applies to all chickens.

I put straw in my run. I dig it into piles daily, to keep the poo smell down, putting it in big piles for their entertainment. The soil underneath is hard clay. I try to dig into it for them, and we do find worms, but it's clumped up by the next day.

How does one deal with the food they don't get to. Doesn't it start to rot?

They have had pumpkin, carrots, cooked potatoes, apples, watermelon, eggs, etc.
Today the cat killed a mouse, so I chucked that in. I'm afraid to go back to check out that situation, lol.

Question:
Does everything rot without harm?
Even rodent bodies?

 

[Debbie292d]

I put straw in my run. I dig it into piles daily, to keep the poo smell down, putting it in big piles for their entertainment. The soil underneath is hard clay. I try to dig into it for them, and we do find worms, but it's clumped up by the next day.

How does one deal with the food they don't get to. Doesn't it start to rot?

They have had pumpkin, carrots, cooked potatoes, apples, watermelon, eggs, etc.
Today the cat killed a mouse, so I chucked that in. I'm afraid to go back to check out that situation, lol.

Question:
Does everything rot without harm?
Even rodent bodies?

Whoa, I couldn't do that, but more power to you!

We use horse bedding pellets and change them once a year. No smell, no maintenance.