Good morning. My head is still pounding so I am not going to be on much! I need to clean the coop out. My deep litter smells like ammonia so I'm going to start over. At least it is a pretty day even if it is cold!
get pine chips and just put on top it takes care of the smell, i just went out and did ours, we have 2 coops and 43 hens had them go in both coops but with it this cold we closed the little coop now they are all in one coop, they are keeping each other warm looked neat the way they are on the roost, we have a flat shelf roost, works great most of them are up there, i would not take dl out in the winter, i have done this every winter for the last 10 yrs, i used a 1/3 of the chips on top of the old.