Inside pine flakes. Outside I use straw and straw bales to scratch, sit and lay on because it is still warm on their feet even it if gets wet. Give them a part of a bale of straw on the ground in flakes, throw wheat, oats, and sunflower seed, popped popcorn, crumbled cornbread, and watch them scratch the flakes apart. In the spring if any missed wheat, oats, or sunflowers sprout, your chickens will gobble them up.
Cathryn
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Beth" <mwalker39@...> wrote:
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> I sure hope I’m not still on moderation, but if so, that’s ok, I’ll bounce back. At any rate, the winter has hit here in Upstate NY. It snowed like nobody’s business a few days ago, and It’s snowing like that again right now. We live in the city and have one of those chic urban coops with a large garden pen for free-ranging of our red star hens. On a nice day, when we’re home, we give them free roam of the entire yard. But now with the snow, they seem completely unimpressed (as am I) and aren’t venturing further than the protected solarium my husband built for them, which is about 6’ by 10’. To top it all off, Alice is doing a complete molt, and she looks like she got caught in a microwave oven or something.
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> So my question is regarding litter. The girls had a whole big yard to poop and scratch in â€" now they’re quite limited (self-imposed â€" if they liked the snow, they would have a lot more territory in which to peck and paw). I want to go out and rake their area and clean up the poo and lay down some litter. Does anyone actually litter? The ground is frozen and it seems cruel to not give them something in which to peck and paw. If any of you litter, what do you use?
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> As always, thank you so much for your kindness and knowledge transfer!!!!
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