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And all that scratching is mixing the litter up - aerating it for me.

First, the roosters think that itвЂ™s their job to show the hens where the food is, and so they get all excited and start clucking and scratching. In the mornings, when I feed the birds, I go through and sprinkle some feed across the top of the bedding. It cuts down on the work, and it also provides a very clean, healthy environment for the birds.Дown at the bottom of the bedding, weвЂ™ve now got several inches of pretty well-composted material, and the bedding on top is less composted. Can you explain that more?ДЄbout two months ago, we switched from cleaning the pens about once a week to using a deep litter (or deep bedding) system, and this has really helped. Q: You mentioned earlier about using deep bedding. But theyвЂ™re not like the White Cochins - when I move the Buff Cochins off their nest, then they stop being broody, so I donвЂ™t know that these would actually stick it out long enough to hatch out eggs. And the Buff Cochin hens вЂ¦ there are several that want to go broody. IвЂ™m probably getting more eggs out of their pen than any of the others. IвЂ™ve never raised so many breeds before, and being able to care for them side-by-side, you really get to see the differences.ДЄnother breed that surprised me is Buff Cochins. Well, probably the most unexpected thing IвЂ™ve learned is just the experience of raising so many different breeds and learning their different characteristics. Q: Have youвЂ™ve learned anything unexpected from this project? The rest of the birds we keep in our two hoop houses. We keep these fourteen breeds in our barn on deep bedding. From fourteen of the breeds weвЂ™re collecting eggs daily, which we then ship to McMurray for hatching. WeвЂ™re seven months into caring for these chickens now, and all of the breeds are laying.

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Q: Can you give us an update on the NoahвЂ™s Ark Project? The project has informally come to be known as the вЂњ NoahвЂ™s Ark Project.вЂќ This interview with Joe Claborn, gives more information on the current state of this project.

Housing for part of the NoahвЂ™s Ark ProjectД«ackground: As weвЂ™ve mentioned previously, in May of 2015, Murray McMurray Hatchery brought a truckload of 3,700 newly-hatched chicks to Joe ClabornвЂ™s farm in Texas for safekeeping as Avian Influenza was spreading in the U.S.

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