Wood shavings everywhere

[wendypc]

I have a deep layer of wood shavings in the coop, and right now the chickens have the coop open so they can go in and out to the enclosed run as they please. They have made several dust baths outside, but yesterday they dug a HUGE hole in the wood shavings. A mass of shavings are outside in the run now, and the coop door won't close there's so much debris on it. I assume they were having a dust bath in the coop, since it's been raining a lot recently. But SUCH a mess - more like a dust storm! Anyone else seen this behavior?

 

[Whittni]

My baby quails do this. They love to shake in the shavings!

 

[chfite]

Chickens are not inherently neat.

Chris

 

[wendypc]

But they've been out there since May, and they've just started doing this. The run is covered with the wood shavings - it's like they're just throwing it out the door!

 

[Sjisty]

My guys are doing the same thing this week. I think it has to do with all the rain we've had. I have so many craters in the coop it looks like the moon!

 

[lazy gardener]

can you put a 6" board across the bottom of the door frame to keep the shavings inside?

 

[thepouts]

Th

can you put a 6" board across the bottom of the door frame to keep the shavings inside? 

This is what I do to keep the sand inside my coop with great success!