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Ouch--poor girl! I am glad she is better.

I bought river sand and it has a lot of the nice soft sand but small pebbles pop up fairly often. I believe sand created naturally over many, many years is safer to use as man made sand (typically used for concrete and building) has more sharp silica that can be "less friendly" to lungs.

Quote: I'm tempted to experiment with sand in the nesting boxes. They seem to like to lay eggs in the feed. Every time I leave the feeding stall open during the day, I can expect to get about 3 eggs that have been layed in the feed. They fly in the trash cans where the feed is stored and...

I should have added that my run is completely roofed and we made a wooden box frame around the run to keep the sand in. This keeps the sand pretty dry too. We added 6" of sand on top of pea gravel that was already there and is several inches deep itself. The soil under it is hard clay. We have...

I have sand in our girls run. The have been in the run since June and there is no fly problem, no odor, and happy chickens who dust bathe with delight anywhere. I use shavings in the hen house as its a raised floor 32" off the ground and that couldn't be easier to clean with vinyl on the floor...