What I want to do: have a 4x8x8 foot flight with wire walls, ceiling and floor have a soil floor on top of the ground wire, in contact with the existing dirt underneath. plant pigeon friendly fast growing annuals in the floor have a small flock of 4-10 pigeons Things that might make this a...

Can one use normal ground/dirt as the flooring for a loft?

I have about 40 white homing pigeons. They hatch eggs and the babies look healthy than they all die between 2-3 weeks old. All summer long. They all die within this 2-3 week window. I have a dirt floor and have not medicated for anything as I do not know what to do. I feed Bay-Mor 12% protien...