Recent content by Ruthster55

I think we’re halfway to that point. Last year with fewer chickens, we had a fairly deep litter with shavings in the coop. However, the number of chickens has increased during the past few months. Last year’s shavings have just disappeared. After cleaning, we put new shavings down, and will add...

Incidentally, the yellow mille fleur mix hen that we culled is one of two hens that have refused to go broody during an incredible run of broody hens that we have had since March. I am in a location where access to hatchery chicks isn’t that easy. Therefore, I value broodiness, as long as the...

In other stuff today, we collected some seeds and then cleaned parts of the main garden and the area alongside. We fed a bunch of tall grass to the cows plus some radishes to the pigs and rabbits. Tomorrow, we will do a bit more garden cleanup and will replant some empty spots. A pair of...

We cleaned the chicken coop and put new litter down! The chicken litter is now in an old wooden doghouse that has been repurposed for composting the chicken litter. In a few months, we hope to use it for garden fertilizer.

It’s a dirt floor. We have used the litter method for a couple of years, but now there are more chickens, and so....it needs cleaning! Hooe the result will be good for the garden after a few months composting. P.S. By way of introduction, I’m fairly regular over at BYC and I just wanted to...

Soon, we’ll be tearing down an old decrepit doghouse. We will convert that into a place to compost chicken manure and we will install the two or three panels near or on the regular vegetation compost pile. The numbers of chickens at the farm have been increasing during the past six months. The...