Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

I was bad did not do the tables or boards yesterday so double on chicken waste. Brought part of the limb that came out of the apple tree a few years ago.
I did a big oops last time I bought dog food, three all lamb.

 

[ValerieJ]

I cleaned out the old coop bedding and replaced it with a 6" thick layer of the shredded wood I had delivered today. I'm hoping the new type of bedding will alleviate the ammonia smell. Biggest problem is that I have too many chickens sleeping in the coop. I think feeding them a lower protein feed might help.

Basically, the minimum space in a coop for chickens is 4 square feet per chicken. In the run, it is 10 SF per chicken. I keep our flock small enough to stay way above that. You will have trouble in the long run if you crowd the chickens.