Yes! It looks like a witch kitchen in the rafters of my chicken tractor and I grow tons of herbs to sprinkle, hang and stuff everywhere. I also recommend First Saturday Lime. And here's a relevant book I like:
in the coop but I do have way to many dirt dobbers..
all of my coops are open air, so there is literally no point in trying to keep them out.
How are you able to use deep litter method? My girls eat their poop.
I haven't seen that. Poop attracts insects and my guess is that they are eating the insects. Mine tend to scratch around the poop and scratch it into compost.
Mine do the same thing if I don't get to it and get it cleaned out first thing in the morning. They will literally scratch all the litter all up into a pile in the corner, which is actually good because for a while they were scratching it OUT the door into the grass, NOT good!! After a few days it can get stinky as it's not fully drying up and gets foul, then I end up taking a lot more compost out with the poop than normal. The other hand is to let them out all day, which I usually did not have a problem with until they started taking a real keen interesting into digging up a lot of my plants, so now F them, they can stay locked up until I get home from work, then they get to roam for the last hour maybe a little more before the sun sets. In the winter, its going to suck to be them because it gets dark at 6pm and I don't get home until 630 pm ish and nobody else is going to let them out, they are not going to want to watch them like I do.
I have used the reusable traps and I either dump them in the pond for the frogs or put them in the compost pile for the chickens to rummage through. I also have swallows that nest in my bluebird houses in the pasture that help keep the numbers down.
