Raising Chickens: Beginners Guide to Raising Healthy and Happy Backyard Chickens by Wilson Janet

Author:Wilson, Janet [Wilson, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Salt

A bit of salt in your dinner cooking is fine, but don’t give them pickles or super salty food as too much salt is not good for them.

Note that we mentioned potatoes on the “no” list – but sweet potatoes are wonderful for your chickens – including the peels. Sweet potatoes are not nightshades and do not contain the toxins of concern; they are just packed with great nutrition.

Cleaning the Coop

Cleaning the coop has come up in previous sections; here is a convenient summary.

Clean the poop out of your coop every day. If it looks like a little bedding needs to be added to the roost or nesting boxes, then add a little.

Every week, you have to make sure that you change the bedding and compost it with your chicken manure. (Described below)

I recommend that you do not start with the deep litter method. Get your routine down doing the regular cleanings before you add in another learning curve.

As discussed, the “deep litter method” is a way of composting your chicken manure in the coop. This minimizes cleaning the coop to every six months.

Pros

4-6 ″ of dry wood shavings will last six months.

It is an excellent method for winter in cold climates where you have snow accumulation and acclimate weather.

You only have to clean the whole coop every six months!

Put the compost straight into your garden beds; it’s ready to go directly from the coop.

Cons

You can’t use DE with the deep litter method because it will kill the good bacteria that is composting the manure. You’ll end up with an emergency clean.

It’s much harder to clean the surfaces of the coop to eliminate mites.

If you don’t get the balance of manure and wood shavings quite right, it will smell terribly of ammonia, and instead of being easier, it will be an emergency health issue to your chickens. Ammonia will harm their respiratory systems.

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