The mineral zeolite and it is a life saver for chicks, reptiles, horses, cows, and whatever animal, poultry, or mammal you chose to use it with. Your chicks can even eat it and mine do it is safe. It takes out the odor, reduces the flies also and just all around yuck from poop.
You realize that you are answering posts that are 8 years old, and have probably been answered already.
PDZ?? I missed that one...
Do you mean stall fresh or zeolite granules or powder? That is what it is the abbreviation for. Don’t mind aart above. He doesn’t realize that some of the older posts though not being removed by the admin staff for whatever reason- laziness or perhaps because as I have thought that they share important information for all BYC members both older and newbie members have good info. So if you are reading them and slip up like all of us newbies apparently do and apparently make a MISTAKE????? And ask a question which is what I would think is the norm of what would be done with all posts left up on the boards.... Whether out of date or not if left up here as acceptable practice. I mean like who really cares....the thread date police...or oh yes the admin folks?aart?????
My, my, my someone's sounding a bit cranky this morning....
- they are also suggestion the idea of using the search function to see any current threads. And given the detail she pointed out on the subject of sands limitations from experiencial data points - did you miss that? That kind of historical update/feedback I have also recently seen in a few threads by folks AND in (scratches forehead) 2-3 articles as well. One example was stuff like feeding buckets where they update what either failed or found a better tweak. Heck there was a thread over in the ford truck enthusiasts sub forum for the 7.3L diesel platform that showed some folks returning to stuff from like 10 yr old data and it was impressive to read their hindsight self critiques.Did you use the powder form of Sweet PDZ? It looks like it but I’m not completely sure. Looks great, I think I’m going to try this.Ok, so my first coop was done without poop boards-I simply loaded up the floor with sand figuring that would be easy enough to sift the poop out of. Well, the plan sounded good in theory but I found it didn't work so good in reality. Don't get me wrong, the poop scoops out of the sand BUT- the sand SMELLS even after the poop is gone. Also, it is a dusty mess while scooping and I need to take frequent breaks just to breath fresh air. Still better though than changing out shavings weekly (I don't like DLM).
So when we built our 2nd coop we decided to try poop boardsWOW, what a difference. We built a waist high shelf and then added a lip all around and filled it with Sweet PDZ, LOVE IT!!!! I simply sift the poop up every day or two but you certainly can leave it longer if you had to. The Sweet PDZ keeps it from smelling at all. And the best part- NO DUST when scooping. It's almost like sifting flour. It is very zen like to clean and I tend to get carried away and make designs for my girls ( I know, I have issues
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Anyway, thought I would share my experience and of course some pics
FYI, the products available back then might have been dust or snad-like granules.
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