SOD FOR CHICKS COOP Floor bedding ( PICTURES ) update page 4

I go out with a shovel and dig up a chunk. Just step down on the shovel like your digging a hole and bring up a good shovel full of it. After they've mowed it down I can take the whole thick chunk of it and plant it back in the ground. Hopefully, the grass will survive still. Well, thats the idea anyway. I do it for the ones in the outdoor coop too, if they're not gonna get out for a bit. Oh and I do it for the ones in quarantine. So, I gotta get those mowed chunks outa the paper bags and back in the ground cause its starting to look like uhhh something digging holes.... ha.

oh and, wondering if that wall to wall might get a little overloaded with poo. Maybe watch that it doesn't get messy. You could put some pine shavings on top in certain areas even. Keep it alittle dry. Or save some outside and use it a bit at a time. But It does look gorgeous!
 
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as promised here is update day 4 still looking good, it is dirty, but I have 26 chicks using it.
I might rake it tomorrow.

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Omran
 
I can just imagine the sod farmers yelling "YES!! We have the chicken nuts on board now!!" Count me in - it looks like a great idea!!
 
I know this is an old post but I'm pretty sure I just lost 2 of my pullets today due to the new sod we put in the run. We had a bad storm 3 weeks ago and it got real muddy in there so we decided to make the ground higher with sod. Within 10 days 2 of the 3 hens I had croaked the same way. Perfectly normal one day, listless in the morning, unable to stand then dead by noon. Do not chance it. A lot of Sod is treated for bugs that is toxic to chickens.
 

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