Ugh, this weather. Mold on everything!

[Henriettamom919]

So it's been about 85-92* the past few days with a lovely marine cloud cover for a large part of that time that left the air feeling like hot, wet towels

I wake up to feed the girls and littles, get my human little off to school and our Costco muffins (bought Sunday) are moldy. Our bread, moldy. The grass seed planted last weekend, moldy. Anywhere chicken chow EVER touched the soil in my runs...you guessed it, moldy. I tossed all feed from their bowls and checked our feed sacks; fortunately those are kept in predator proof bins specifically for bird seed/animal food and smelled fine.

I spent my morning first raking then actually sweeping dirt. So gross. I've put down fresh pine shavings with a little DE over the moldy soil areas to dry them out some but JEEZ!

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

Yuck. Mould is worse than my other 'm'-nemesis, mud.

 

[LaidWithLove]

Ugh yes. Mold is killer in this hot wet spring. I have resorted to buying all these fancy products I swore I'd never use. ware brand coop odor control (charcoal basically), microbe lift cleaner (which is actually wonderful!), ag lime, and of course I'm zipping through sweet PDZ like no one's business! I did go to cedar shavings in my open run, doesn't bother the birds at all and really nice for the smell. Pine in their coop. of course lots and lots of herbs too!! I've been raking the yuck out, laying down charcoal, then ag lime and sweet PDZ, letting that sit a day then adding cedar over top with herbs. Spray with the microbe lift every other day and clean every other week. I rotate grow boxes with cover crops to help the soil compaction. Not the cheapest method, but the most effective. deep litter caused a lot of ammonia and mold no matter what substrate I used, how often i turned it.

 

[Folly's place]

It's really wet here too; seems like a rain forest, not Michigan!
Mary