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Songster
We have a small flock of pullets (5). Pine shavings in the coop that I scoop out daily (I have a poop board under the roost and this works well). I clean the stuck down poop off the roosts about once a week and add PDZ/DE on top of the shavings. I was cleaning it out fully every week but now I'm thinking every other week or more is fine with the daily surface cleaning + PDZ.
My big concern is our run which is coarse sand + some small rocks. The small rocks are making it super hard to spot and clean the poop, so I've been scooping where I can but thinking a lot of it is getting buried with the sand. Is this bad? Should I be sprinkling PDZ and DE in there are on a regular cadence as well? Probably will also get more sand to bury the rocks or eventually just be scooping all the rocks out with the poop, not sure at this point. I'm just worried about their health if they're living in old poop assuming I don't fully change out the sand for months.
My big concern is our run which is coarse sand + some small rocks. The small rocks are making it super hard to spot and clean the poop, so I've been scooping where I can but thinking a lot of it is getting buried with the sand. Is this bad? Should I be sprinkling PDZ and DE in there are on a regular cadence as well? Probably will also get more sand to bury the rocks or eventually just be scooping all the rocks out with the poop, not sure at this point. I'm just worried about their health if they're living in old poop assuming I don't fully change out the sand for months.