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All Natural Coop Disinfectant
If you keep chickens, you’re going to get familiar with poop. Chickens poop….like a lot. Not only while they are running around, but they continue to let it loose as they sleep. All this manure in your coop is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria and flies in the warmer months. Yuck. Every time you clean the coop and change their bedding, you should be disinfecting. But don’t think you need to turn to harmful chemicals and toxic cleaners to get the job done. Use my favorite home made natural disinfectant instead. ORANGE AND VINEGAR NATURAL DISINFECTANT Making your own non toxic and natural disinfectant is so easy and so inexpensive.…
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Why Aren’t My Chickens Laying in the Winter
This article contains affiliate links. This means if you click through and make a purchase I may receive a commission, at no additional cost to you. For more information see my disclosures here. Over the summer you were getting an abundance of eggs each day. So many that maybe you didn’t even know what to do with them! Then fall rolled around, and things started to slow down. By December…. you were lucky to find one lone egg in the nesting boxes. What gives?! Just like everything, eggs have a season. There are periods of high production, and periods of slow to no production. It’s all part of a healthy…
