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As long as you have 4 dogs and 2 cats I don't really know what you can do to avoid fleas. But a flea is a flea sand or not. The use of sand greatly outweighs not using it.

Good to hear. I need to stop and get some DE myself.

I put sand in my coop after an exceptionally wet spring and the mud was nasty smelly. Once I had sand the only time it smelled was when the chickens scratched down to the mud. Once summer dried everything out I never had the smell again. Don't know how long you have had sand but you may need to...

Ducks are water fowl and swim and eat in water that contains sand. That might answer your question.

They will not be unhappy with sand. Believe me the sand is much better than the muddy stinky mess and you can throw your scraps right into the sand. Remember chickens eat rocks to help their gizzards to grind up what they eat so sand does not hurt them. Always remember as well. People in areas...

You will certainly appreciate the difference. My muddy run was nasty and dangerous from being so slippery. I put the sand on it and it made a world of difference with smell and walkability. We had an extremely wet late winter and spring so even though the sand drained well it continued to stay...

Nice tool. I started by scooping the poop out of the sand but with all the scratching the girls do it just gets buried and bio degrades anyway. So as a test I stopped scooping to see if it would smell bad. Nope not an issue. The only time the run gets an odor is when it rains and gets wet and...

It sounds like you are talking about your hen house with the wooden/vinyl floor. My floor is wood unpainted. The run of the the coop is where I have sand. If that is the case I don't know if I would want to put sand in the actual hen house on top of a wood/vinyl floor. The sand is better for use...

I'm am going to add about 4 more inches of sand and see how that does. What I have has worn itself down to about 2 inches with all the rain.

I Put about 4 inches of sand in mine to start but we have had so many rains I am going to be adding more. I like the sand when it is all wet it will still be smelly when you rake it around but that is just because of the mud underneath. I will probably add more sand in another week or two and...

Mine didn't act different at all. In fact it was excessively muddy when I did it so they loved it. When it is dry which hasn't been much lately they have lot's of fun with dust/sand baths.

Just cover the grass or let the chickens have at what you are going to cover then once they take care of that throw in the sand.

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-silica-sand.htm Please read this link. I believe you will find that unless your chickens are demolishing concrete or doing sand blasting without masks on then they should be okay in regular old sand. Silica is the chemical rocks break down into to create sand...

Yes it is a natural and safe.

I put sand in for the exact problem you are having. It works great. It has been so wet here that it gets pretty messy as well but not like mud. Also the stench is not like the stench of the mud and the sand dries much faster.

Yes sand. Just put sand in mine ten days ago. It was a wet smelly mud and straw mess do to a wet late winter here. Now, smell is gone, eggs are cleaner, sand dries faster after getting wet. Most poop gets scratched underneath so not nearly as much cleaning. I use straw in my nesting boxes but am...

I just finished putting 3 to 4 inches of sand in my run. Literally about 10 minutes ago I finished up. The smell is gone and from what I have read on this site it will stay smell free and the sand will drain the water. search sand in runs on this site you will find lot's of info on it.