Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[Yolky]

I was wondering if you had a walk in run and used hemcore/auboise how big is your run and how much hemcore/auboise does it take to fill it. Also how deep do you have it.

 

Thanks

[chooklady]

We used a mixture, don't quite know how this will work out. 8 bags of wood chip and 1 bag of Hemcore. in a 12 x 6 feet area. It's about 2 - 3 inches deep.

[Yolky]

How often do you plan to change it chooklady, from what I have been reading it should be monthly/6 weekly...that would work out very expensive with the amount you have used.

[redfrock]

Ours is 12ft x 15ft. We use a bag and a half of aubiose in it and change it every 4 weeks. It isn't slabbed underneath so we sprinkle stalosan on the soil before we lay down the fresh lot.

 

(BTW we couldn't believe how the cost of the aubiose had rocketed when we bought it this weekend. We find hemcore more expensiove, but both are getting ever harder to find)

Edited August 12, 2008 by Guest

[chooklady]

I think the wood chips last longer, I may be wrong, I think I will see what happens. To be honest I'm not really sure.

[Egluntyne]

My run is 18' x 9'. I change it every month to six weeks and use about 3/4 of a bale of Aubiose

[Yolky]

That is good to hear Egluntine, our run will be 13 x 6 (maybe slightly bigger but not much) so good to hear that a bale should last a bit longer than I thought (especially as my husband has to be the one to buy it as the supplier is near his work, he loves the chooks but he is starting to add up the cost of them I keep telling him that at the moment it is still the initial costs and once we are up and running the costs will be minimal )

[Peachy77]

Have been wonsering this myself. Have been wondering how much I would need for our run which is 3m x 1.2m and also how deep it should be.

 

Also does esibed need to be kept dry? The horse shop I just spoke to said he wasnt sure for chickens, but for horses its designed to get wet (from horses wee etc) so he cant see why it getting get would cause any problems. Anyone got any experience of this?

[choppish]

regardeless of how much hemcore i use in mine it gets dug over and disappears after a day in to the soil and woodchip beneath.

 

i think i'll give up using it. although i do use it in the poo tray and nest box too