Let’s clean out our brooder! Every year we brood out 4,000 chickens in our shipping container turned brooder. Although we practice the deep litter method, every four weeks we still completely clean the brooder out. We use a livestock trailer to get all the chickens out. Then we come in with the skid steer. We know we’re properly doing the deep litter method when all of the shavings seem dry all the way through and the floor underneath is nice and dry too. We go back-and-forth back-and-forth swee