Michigan

[babigyrl22]

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Ohhh you are baaaad

I would say SURE!! but we recently adopted (for free) 4 laying hens bringing up my backyard flock total to 14. I was thinking about selling a couple of my young ones to give me an excuse to hatch some eggs. My husband looked at me like I was rediculous.

i need to work on my "pretty please wide-glossy-eyed" look.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

I am going to have the same problem. I have 12 laying hens, 6 pullets and 3 more undetermined chicks. I just bought an incubator and am dying to start it up and try it out. I still don't know what I will do with all these chickens! My husband is going to kill me. I can't keep them because my hen house is not big enough nor is my run

I don't want to part with my laying hens yet though. Such dilemnas, huh?

 

[babigyrl22]

Question for the forum:

I've been using pine shavings for my coop (I like the way it smells) but the girls are really good a soiling it quickly and covering that nice pine smell. I came across a forum that talked about using sand and using a slatted scoop to remove poo similiar to cat litter.

Anyone had experience with sand? Thoughts?

 

[chikkaboomboom]

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I do not like sand, it gets wet underneath and smells even worse. So far I have been using a pine shaving and chopped straw combo,21 chickens I do a total clean out once a month, I also put DE down UNDER the new shavings. So far so good.
Other people use different things and are probably just as happy with it.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

I found that pine shavings were just too yucky after a short while. We use straw and Stall Dry. I'd prefer DE but it's not always so easy to come by.

 

[babigyrl22]

I figured out early that I am seriously allergic to straw. I come within 5ft of the stuff and I am sneezing like no tomorrow. LOL

What is DE?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

DH stopped by an Amish sawmill today and was asking about getting some sawdust, shavings. They sell it pretty cheep. Thought we might give it a try. I still have a half a bag of DE to mix in with it.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

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Diatomacous Earth but I KNOW I didn't spell that right!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Diatomacous Earth but I KNOW I didn't spell that right!

At least you tried, I didn't even go there, I knew I couldn't!

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

That's funny, I didn't answer right away because I was afraid I would butcher the spelling really bad and didn't take the time to look it up. Ha!