She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[AmyLynn2374]

And since I'm picture happy at the moment, I have to share some pics of the littles.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Coop looks great Amy. I wish I had a dirt floor because I would like to do deep litter inside. It's so dry here I have to water down the run to keep down the dust and help the stuff decompose. Since the coop has a wood floor - watering it down wouldn't work so I use a layer of PDZ & sand and scoop every so often.

SC & SideWing & other BCM owners, how do you like my pullet?

Thanks. Even though I haven't had a single predator problem yet, (knock on wood-thank God) that's the only thing that bothers me not having a floor built up. The idea that's it's easier to dig under. I do plan on doing deep litter though.

 

[scflock]

Coop looks great Amy.  I wish I had a dirt floor because I would like to do deep litter inside.  It's so dry here I have to water down the run to keep down the dust and help the stuff decompose.  Since the coop has a wood floor - watering it down wouldn't work so I use a layer of PDZ & sand and scoop every so often.

SC & SideWing & other BCM owners, how do you like my pullet?

I will have to defer to side wing, I'm not qualified
She looks very nice to me, not too light in the hackles

 

[FridayYet]

I will have to defer to side wing, I'm not qualified

She looks very nice to me, not too light in the hackles

 

[RubyNala97]

Amy the coop looks great!! I can't believe the pics of the babies... They get big soo fast! Adorable!

 

[lazy gardener]

Amy, I agree with Friday. My thought is this: If you have a structure that is well supported, (without a sill sitting directly on bare ground) why not just put a hardware skirt around the building, and use DL on the bare ground. It would save you a bundle, not to mention the frustration of trying to build a floor in an already finished structure, and it would give you a maintenance free DL instead of having to maintain a wood floor, and worry about moisture damage from the DL. The only reason I wouldn't recommend this is if your coop is sitting on an area prone to standing water or flooding. But, that doesn't look to be the case.

 

[WalnutHill]

The black and whites. Mine are mostly feather footed and a couple have brown/black/white, but I have both the Ameraucana type face and the more blocky type birds. Mine hatched mid April and are about 9 weeks and are a pretty good size already. If they lay as well as the gold EE hen that mothered several of them, I will be very happy. She lays better than the young red sex links.

 

[WalnutHill]

Coop looks great Amy. I wish I had a dirt floor because I would like to do deep litter inside. It's so dry here I have to water down the run to keep down the dust and help the stuff decompose. Since the coop has a wood floor - watering it down wouldn't work so I use a layer of PDZ & sand and scoop every so often.

SC & SideWing & other BCM owners, how do you like my pullet?

I tried SweetPDZ and learned to hate it. Try pelletized gypsum...lots cheaper...pH neutral...contains elemental sulphur plus calcium carbonate. The birds eat it for the sulphur, changes gut pH and helps fight cocci, adds calcium to the diet, tossed on the dirt runs helps the soil be nice and crumbly rather than packed, and helps combat manure odor like nothing else.

 

[cppeace]

Well Mutt egg has not progressed, is still moving around in there but still no hurry to hatch. So I missed nothing.

 

[FridayYet]

I tried SweetPDZ and learned to hate it.  Try pelletized gypsum...lots cheaper...pH neutral...contains elemental sulphur plus calcium carbonate.  The birds eat it for the sulphur, changes gut pH and helps fight cocci, adds calcium to the diet, tossed on the dirt runs helps the soil be nice and crumbly rather than packed, and helps combat manure odor like nothing else.

I have been using it for 2 years in the granular form., never had a problem. Why did you hate it? Zeolite is fairly inert from what I have read.

Thanks for the tip on the gypsum though, I will look for it and give it a try if I can find it.