On a chicken keeping blog I follow, someone recently posted that we should clean out feathers from the coop because they don't absorb moisture and it may encourage feather picking during the winter months when hens may get bored.
I do scoop out poop under the roost regularly, but is it really necessary to remove every last feather that makes an appearance in the coop? I can understand if there are a lot of them laying about when the hens molt, but for the odd one here and there, does it really matter if they are just left until bedding cleanup? I do a pretty decent cleanup of bedding quite regularly anyway.
I do scoop out poop under the roost regularly, but is it really necessary to remove every last feather that makes an appearance in the coop? I can understand if there are a lot of them laying about when the hens molt, but for the odd one here and there, does it really matter if they are just left until bedding cleanup? I do a pretty decent cleanup of bedding quite regularly anyway.