My five fat hens have scratched their lovely grassy area virtually to down the ground, as they do! Today while gardening I noticed we had a lot of leaves falling from the trees surrounding the front garden, due to lack of rain in Lincolnshire, not the early Autumn onset!
We gathered several sacks of them and spread them in the run and threw in some pellets, they absolutely love it, they are scratching away in it picking up the pellets and no doubt other tit bits! As a bonus the run looks a whole lot better for it and seems to eradicate any smells coming from it.
Anyone else use leaf litter or is it not advised?
Here's a quick video of them...
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