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4/14/12 at 9:15pm

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I bought a bag of "Chick Grit" at Orscheln, and it's apparently a reasonably common product. I've also heard of folks using construction sand -- at least one person in that thread made it sound like play sand is too fine? -- and that it pulls double-duty in the dust box, but I've never tried it.

Current flock: one Australorp, one EE, one Barred Rock, and one Buff Orpington, all hatched at Cackle on March 19, 2012.
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4/23/12 at 4:43pm

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Is play sand often recycled glass though? and is it okay if a chicken gets glass in their plumbing? I've wondered this since I used recycled glass in my landscaping endeavors and pieces make their way to the run occasionally.