Soggy stench of death, help

gemd

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Mar 25, 2020
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We had 5 inches of rain in a few days and it was that side ways stuff so the roof didn't protect the floor of my chicken run. So it's an inch of slime with shavings and leaves and poo and mud that smells worse than death. Never smelt anything worse. It's gonna attract vermin etc. And be a health hazard for the chickens and my family.

So we need to figure out a solution like yesterday.

I can't easily rake up the slimy stench as I have asthma to so I don't want to get sick. Can I just add agriculture lime on top and if so how.

Excuse lack of certain punctuation btw as my phone has some how rebooted and only includes periods and commas.
 
We had 5 inches of rain in a few days and it was that side ways stuff so the roof didn't protect the floor of my chicken run. So it's an inch of slime with shavings and leaves and poo and mud that smells worse than death. Never smelt anything worse. It's gonna attract vermin etc. And be a health hazard for the chickens and my family.

So we need to figure out a solution like yesterday.

I can't easily rake up the slimy stench as I have asthma to so I don't want to get sick. Can I just add agriculture lime on top and if so how.

Excuse lack of certain punctuation btw as my phone has some how rebooted and only includes periods and commas.
Wear one of those face masks that we all got during covid...
 
If you can get a friend or neighbor to help clean it out, that would be much better for you.

In the meantime, if you have some pallets lying around, you can throw those down for the chickens to have some drier spots to walk on.

What is (was) your run litter? Just shavings and leaves? Can you get some wood chips, chunky, preferably, and add that in? It'll help with the mud issue and can help with drainage, as long as drainage isn't normally an issue in that spot.
 

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