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I've used pine shavings in my coop, and I allow the girls to run in my fenced yard 2-3 hours a day from their run. The girls always leave a thick pile in line with their roosts.... So when I let them out, I scoop their poop in the coop and when they get put back in the run, we always clean up...

is your alfalfa that you water down..... pellets or alfalfa grass...? It is winter here.... don't want any water in my chicken run.... My husbands purchased a bale of chopped alfalfa... wondering about throwing it into the run for them to scratch and eat?

wouldn't diatamacious earth get rid of them... in their nesting boxes and in their dustbath?

Bless your heart.... I'm so sorry you went through that..... I'm new also, and have a bathtub cardboard box in my spare bedroom with 6 new babies just 7 days old.... and I have a brooder plate and also got a red heat lamp and turned the radiator on to warm up the bedroom. Determined to...

I just put a nipple waterer in the coop this afternoon. Six little ones 7 days old today.... A 2 gal bucket.. on a piece of wood to bring it up a bit. Within seconds they were pecking at it.... so I took the regular waterer out... with all it's marbles... and watched... they were ravishly...

great information.... thank you.... I think I was definitely overdoing the heat. much more balanced now.... and today is their first full week.... happy birthday day 7!!!! All 6 have made it so far.... :)

This was new info I didn’t know. I’ve been trying to keep the entire bedroom at 85-90 degrees. The brooder plate is plenty big for all six. Turning off the heat light and the radiator heater in the room. That’ll make it more fun for me to stay in the room with them too. 🤪

Very helpful - thank you.

Thank you so much for that explanation.... Making my head spin. .. I just looking for chicken talk...But definitely love knowing what the "hatching" was about.... Like newbie level.... and I'm definately there. :-} blessings~

Ants hate peppermint oil....

I have 6 three day old babies. I'm so new, but have been reading for a year. I have a bathtub sized cardboard box, a brooder plate plus a red heat lamp. I have discovered one of them to have a dingleball on its butt... you all call pasty butt... and it may be the heat... so I'm addressing...

I am brand new to all of this, but have been reading for over a year. My new babies have reached day 3. Thank you for this group. I'm editing this post to put in a proper place... first time posting and I believe I messed up. why does it say "Hatching" under my username? Did I click on...