We use shredded wood in the coop and line the nest boxes with it and then put hay in the nest boxes, too. I like the very finely shredded wood and it smells pretty good. It sounds like your neighbors are smelling someone elses chickens! I think mulch or bark is a good footing outside, too.
Laura
Laura Roberts
R Half Pint Farm
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 5:19 PM
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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Newbie with some questions
Hi Laura
What do you use for bedding in place of straw? I have been using straw in their nesting box, and sawdust in their sleeping area. Would shredded paper be an alternative in their nesting box?
I'm trying bark on the floor of their integral run. I read somewhere that bark is good at absorbing smells. They really only use the integral run between them getting up and me getting up to let them out, and then they have a much bigger area to cluck about in until dusk when they go back into their house to roost.
The food tends not to get spilled a lot, and if it does it doesn't really get wet since it's in a covered area.
I must say, no-one who comes to my house had ever noticed a chicken smell. In fact, a lot of people don't realise that I have chickens at all, so it's a mystery how my neighbours are finding the smell so awful. We realised today that there is another flockette of hens in another garden that abuts my neighbours.... so altogether 4 flockettes of chickens in the immediate vicinity. Given that there is never any smell in my house or garden, I wonder whether the problem is coming from someone else's chickens.
Best wishes
Chrissie
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Laura A. Roberts" <laura0554@...> wrote:
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> I just thought about this and suggest not using straw as
> bedding. It molds and gets smelly and that attracts flied, bacterial
> growth, etc. The bedding could be the biggest contributor to the smell.
> Also, is food being spilled and getting wet? That smells pretty bad, too.
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> I have found sand and gravel to work well for the footing in a
> pen. Rain washes the poops away and there is no mud to deal with.
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> Laura
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> Laura Roberts
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