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X2 I'm in MO too and while I have used it in a couple of covered runs, I can't imagine it working well in the coop. My place was more like a lake this week and the rest of the winter the sand would be frozen to a solid rock. The shavings stay loose. My first post on this thread, I mentioned...

Building supply places and nurseries. Most have it by the ton.

Chicken.Lytle : Quote: Sand is good for certain soil types helping drainage, but sand and clay makes concrete. Concrete? ...Where I live the soil is a mix of clay and sand called gumbo. It is only slightly thicker than soup when it rains a lot. It does get pretty hard when dry, but not as...

Quote: Sand is good for certain soil types helping drainage, but sand and clay makes concrete.

Quote: The feed store by me sells large bales of the large dimension shavings in either pine or aspen for horse stalls and that's what I use, a lot cheaper than the shavings they sell for small animal bedding too. My coop is pretty sturdy but I wonder if the floor would hold up to that much...

I think climate makes a difference. It is 90% humidity here right now, it's like that spring summer fall and winter. On the rare occasion it gets down to 60% I think I died and went to heaven. You probably have about 30% in the Mtns. of Calif. I know here even dry sand in the winter becomes a...