Wowowowowow!!! What a gorgeous setup! I think it’d be great fun to have an aviary like that but, living in waaaaaay-Southern Ohio, we have far too many predators and bad weather to have anything other than a metal roof. And certainly no bananas! We DO have pawpaws which taste like a...
Our Winter temps range from 45° to -15° with high humidity here in Southern Ohio. I have sand in the coop, run, and nestboxes. The girls have plenty of roosts, but sometimes choose to just park it right in the sand. They still dustbathe in both the coop and the run and don’t seem to mind the...
I live in waaaaaaaaay-Southern Ohio where the humidity level is never below forty-five percent. We get a LOT of rain, snow, and dense fog, so it’s always wet. And we have sand in the coop and covered run. We buy ours by the 14-ton dumptruck load from the local quarry. It’s natural, washed...
I clean my coop every morning and the run twice a day or whenever it needs it (I spend a lot of time outside with my girls). We are all sand, so I use a long-handled metal wok spider to scoop up the poop. All the poop goes into the poop pile to eventually be used on the lawn and pasture. Our...