From Pine Shavings to Wood Pellets in Chicken Coop
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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After a few months using Pine Shavings in the coop.
It is hard to clean the poop and there seems to be a lot of dust.
I was going to use sand, but it was wet and not available at some places.
So I decided to try the Wood Pellets.
So, if you fill a 5 galleon bucket up with those pellets about 1/4 of the way, add cold water till it completely covers the pellets, then quickly dump out the excess water and stir with your bare hands. Within 15 min your whole bucket will be filled. Stir it and put in your coop. It’s should be dry. It will still absorb and the BEST part… you can use your litter scooper to clean it. The pellets won’t fit through, but the dust like pine will… just like sand and capture all the poo! Super easy! I’ve been using mine for over a year.
I actually put the pellets out on a tarp. Sprayed it with the hose. Used a rake to spread it out, then let it dry for a day. But your way with the buckets actually sounds WAY EASIER. Thank you for watching and the comment. I'll try your way on the next batch. It really does work better with the scooper.
I’ve been using those same pellets for two years. To me… it’s perfect. I do sprinkle some PDZ in there too.
When we had 10 chickens
There was a lot of poop.
Had trouble with the pellets going through the scooper.
So I saw a video where people were the pellets. Let it dry then put in coop. They worked great. For about 6 months. Every time I scooped the poop. I shook the scooper. The poop stayed in scooper and the broken down pellets fell through great. But after a while it turned to dust. Dust everywhere. Lol
They love cabbage!!! Fyi purple cabbage makes them have crayon teal poop
The reason they are sleeping in the corner is because that's how they slept in the brooder, you have to put them on the roost at night to train, your hen house doesn't have proper ventilation, sand doesn't work, those pellets have carcinogens and what you said is nasty is actually the healthiest for your chickens.
You can tell you treat them good. They trust you.
I just switched to pellets today for my ducks it smells so much better. They make it wet everywhere so I’m hoping this is a better method.
Thanks for posting your video. What was the result after you used the pellets?
Btw, regarding your chickens not going on the roost until the day time, it’s possibly due to your cameras. I put a camera in my coop as well and the nightvision (by use of infrared lighting) was on by default. I noticed the chickens would be constantly looking at the camera. When i moved it so the camera was only pointing at half of the coop, most of the chickens began sleeping on the side where the camera was not pointing. I did some research and saw that chickens can see the infrared light. Supposedly it doesn’t bother them much but based on my experiment, it did. Now i turn off the night vision and the chickens seem to sleep evenly throughout the coop now. If you want to see if this might be the reason why your chickens dont roost at night, maybe try turning off the night vision or turning off the camera completely and see if that changes their behavior. It was really hard for me to find this info online so i had to conduct the experiment myself. Good luck!
Mine wouldn’t eat banana until I froze it. Now they love it… especially on a hot day
After the chickens started attacking each other. There free range now. They eat less pellets that I was buying. They eat everything out in the yard.
Gave them fresh cucumber today they loved it.
Yesterday made them big plate of scrambled eggs
Never thought of freezing the bananas. Good idea
Chickens are so cute. Good luck with the pellets
Thank you. Hope all is going well with you.
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I wonder if they think the corner is the safest place to be at night . Poultry protector?.Awesome 👍
My chicks are doing the same thing! Huddling in a corner, when they have lovely roosting poles! What is up with that?! Have yours started sitting on the poles by now?
Maybe throws a layer of Diatomaceous Earth in there.
In the coop or the run. What does that do. Thank you
@@pineyprepper2617 food grade Diatomaceous Earth it's fossilized sea life seashells farmers use it to put on their livestock it's safe I drink it mixed in water, but it helps kill insects the microscopic fossilized sea life is very rough when they walk across it it kills him.
Where did you get those rake?
Think I got them both at Tractor Supply. The long one is too much of an angle. Really doesn't work that well. Thank you
has anyone that has used pine pellet bedding had issues with their chickens eating them? Does it hurt them? Or are they really even eating them....I cant tell.
I was using the pine pellets. They were digging in them and I think pecking at them as they look just like the food pellets I give them. But I don't think they were eating them.
*Hey Bill, About how many gifts do the girls lay for ya daily? Enough for a couple good Omelet's a week?*
So far they haven't laid one single egg. Lol
Hopefully they should be laying within the next month. Just in time for winter, then they slow down production. Lol.
A few days ago we just got a rooster. Bastard crows at 4 and 5 am. Never shuts up.
How are you doing. What a crazy word.
@@pineyprepper2617 . I'm just staying crazy trying to not go Insane. I can work with crazy...LOL - wanting to purchase a Truck but I'll be damned if I am paying these stupid prices they want for everything. It might not ever get better for the rest of our days. Once all us old farts are gone then they'll lighten up for the kids. I believe that is the plan here.. make us suffer for letting this get created to begin with.
@@acgillespie yup. They definitely want us gone. I see commercials about our generation that make us look stupid. Actually we're just smarter than them. We had skills. They don't. Everything is made for them to be stupid.
And trucks are outrageous.
I'm stuck with a truck payment and I hate it. That damn Ford was a polished turd. I got this 10 year old truck now. A new truck must be like a mortgage. Lol
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