It's fluffy butt Friday!
Multi-species fluffy butts! I appreciate the fact that the ducks were being cooperative this morning.
Fresh straw to help the mud situation. Tonight and tomorrow we have snow in the forecast then freezing temps for a few days. Good thing these birds like to snuggle!
With that in mind I wanted to share a quick photo run down of how we keep our hen house clean using sand. It is a trick I learned from The Chicken Chick and it has been invaluable. This is what the house looks like every morning. Gross.
5 minutes later, this is the result. The sand acts like cat litter, and with a simple steel tined rake everything is raked to the center, then right out the access door. I "comb" back through the sand a couple of times to spread it back out and voila!, a clean hen house. A bag of sand costs $4.00 and lasts us a month. It's cheap, easy to maintain, and very economical. I know the birds appreciate a clean house each day!
You're welcome miss chicken.
Enjoy the weekend and thanks for checking in!
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