Producing clean table eggs from a flock raised in a deep litter system has always ... from the ground and placed on the floor of a resting area in the chicken house for birds to roost on.

Female poultry birds which are reared for egg laying ... on proper litter material of about three to five depth. The word litter is used for clean litter material spread on the floor.

Hens will lay eggs without ... which is the area where the chickens forage and busy themselves during the day can have an earth floor but should be strewn with organic litter such as straw ...