Pastured Poultry deep litter #shorts

Now, the deep litter is a very special thing, and deep litter actually reduces mortality. Once we take the.

Birds out, we.

Don'T clear out the bedding ever in the whole season.

What we do is take about one.

And a half watering.

Cans per hen, water the bedding, and then we take.

A pitchfork.

And just turn it and.

Then we cap it with about an inch.

Of sawdust. Now, doing that.

Reduces mortality massively because you've got a biological nappy. Like, think about chicks, they live underneath.

A hen under her wings. They shit everywhere. They're sitting in their shit a bit.

And they're living in this little environment for a few weeks. But basically, it's making a biological nappy that keeps.

Those birds healthy.

It's filling their gut with bacteria and making their immune system work. But in the industry, they clean it.

All out, spray it all with chemicals.

Anti life. We're trying to promote.

Life microbes, these.

Little things that.

We wage war on.

They'Re the things that keep the system healthy.