Making a mess in the coop?

[apetelo]

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How much pine shavings do you put in weekly? Enough to cover the floor? I chose the deep litter method with a dirt floor for compost reasons, but honestly I don't know how the bottom layers could "degrade" because they are constantly getting stirred up to the top? Am I not thinking this right?

 

[patandchickens]

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Yeah, I didn't explain it very well did I

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blockorplasticdish
plastic mesh tabletop
plywoodplywoodplywood
block block block shavings shavings shavings
block block block shavings shavings shavings

is that any better? It's just a slightly elaborate version of what most people seem to do.

"Block or plastic dish" is either a coupla scrap pieces of 2x6, or the red base of a spare waterer turned upside down under the base of the real one being used.

'"Plastic mesh tabletop" is, for my 2 indoor pens, a small (maybe12" square) plastic tabletop about 2" thick and most of it is strong plastic mesh. Hard to explain. I spend a lot of time in thrift stores

Hope that helps,

Pat

 

[Alaskan]

pat, why not have the water directly on the plywood that is on the blocks?

What does the dish and the mesh do?