Odor Control
Paul Hinlicky, who operates St. Gaul Farm in Catawba, Virginia, along with his wife, emphasizes that the best thing he has ever done to decrease odor has been to adapt the deep-litter method. Basically, this management system involves periodically covering soiled litter with multiple layers of fresh litter, often pine shavings. Doing so allows the pine shavings to absorb the heavily nitrogen chicken waste, creating, in effect, a compost bin within a henhouse. Hinlicky, however, prefers a different bedding, one that doesn’t cost anything.