Working installations
L.O.G.S. is built around real animal spaces and the daily problems that come with them: smell, flies, wet bedding, manure build-up and constant cleaning. These installations show how the system can work in a smallholding, an educational animal centre, a family rabbit hutch and an urban chicken coop.
A smallholding farm — goats and sheep
This was the working installation that started L.O.G.S. Goats and sheep used the area overnight, and the ground had become wet, smelly and difficult to manage. Cleaning and bedding were a constant job, and flies were part of the daily problem.
The area was rebuilt as a deep, layered living ground system. Instead of manure, urine and moisture remaining on a compacted surface, the floor became a structured, carbon-rich environment beneath the animals.
The change was clear: no persistent smell, a drier surface, fewer flies and far less ongoing cleaning. It showed that the ground beneath the animals could become part of the solution.
An educational centre and petting-farm environment
At an educational livestock centre, animals, children, staff and visitors shared the same environment. The animal area had to be practical for daily use while remaining pleasant for the people around it. Odour control was especially important.
L.O.G.S. was installed beneath the livestock area to create a more stable, biologically active floor. The result was a cleaner, more manageable animal space with no ongoing odour issue.
This installation shows what L.O.G.S. can offer educational centres, petting zoos and public-facing animal spaces: animals can be kept in a working environment without the smell and continual clean-up becoming the focus.
A family rabbit hutch — pets at home
For a family keeping rabbits at home, the hutch had become an ongoing source of smell and cleaning. The rabbits were loved family pets, but the usual shallow bedding could not keep up with urine and manure.
L.O.G.S. created a compact, layered living base beneath the hutch. It gave the rabbits a drier, more stable environment while dealing with organic material below the surface rather than allowing it to build up in the bedding.
The smell disappeared and the hutch required very little maintenance. It showed that rabbits can be kept at home without the usual ongoing odour and cleaning burden.
Family rabbit hutch
An urban chicken coop
At an urban smallholding in the city, a chicken coop with around 30 birds had the familiar problems of flies, manure that needed constant cleaning, unpleasant smell and small ticks around the chickens’ eyes.
L.O.G.S. redesigned the coop as a whole system. The floor was rebuilt to process manure below the birds, the sleeping area was arranged with different perch levels so the chickens could settle into their natural pecking order, and the nesting area was made darker and more suitable for egg laying.
The chickens became calmer, there was much less fighting and egg laying increased. The droppings stopped building up on the surface and were gone within about 48 hours. We no longer had the constant cleaning burden, there were far fewer flies, and the tick problem around the chickens’ eyes reduced significantly.
Urban chicken smallholding, Johannesburg
Different places. The same practical idea.
From home rabbit hutches and urban chicken coops to smallholdings, petting zoos and educational centres, L.O.G.S. adapts the same living-ground principle to the animals, the enclosure and the way the space is used.
Every installation begins with the site itself. We look at the animals, the existing space and the problem you want to solve, then design the right L.O.G.S. system for that environment.