Author Topic: smell (Read 3171 times)

Kier · « **on:** August 17, 2010, 12:22:24 am »

With these sunny days and sometimes wet nights the garden has begun to smell a little from the chickens/ducks.the coop and duck house r cleaned out once a week and the smell is coming from the mud itself as it is getting wet,poohed on and then warmed up in the sun.I'm confident that someone else must have this problem aswell and was interested in how they combat it???

Daveravey · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2010, 12:42:45 am »

I think we all have the same problem from time to time.

Remove hens

Sprinkle a little Stalosan or similar over the effected area & fork it over to 2" deep

Put hens back in.

My hens are on a slabbed area just now, as i've reseeded about 75% of the grass

BlueDaisy · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2010, 09:05:14 am »

I fork over as deep as the fork goes, got slabs down as stepping stones to stop compacting, that generally does it. Depends how many chickens on what size space though.

doganjo · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2010, 09:15:10 am »

Mine are in a run much of the time, but allowed into the garden a few hours each day. The garden is big and no smell there, but the run is a bit smelly sometimes. I have tried Type 1, builders sand, ordinary earth since they destroyed the grass that was there originally - they plough everything up. Now I have a routine which works reasonably well - at least in summer. I use lots of straw in their sheds and clean that out weekly onto the run, and the old straw is raked up, and wheelbarrowed to my compost heap. I must try stalosan. I have just used Diatom for everything previously.