Sand vs Pine Shavings

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

Yeah the average humidity here in Arkansas is 70%, Arizona is 38%. Plays a huge part in how things dry out.

Most of Arizona is sand anyways right? Makes sense that it would be the best alternative.
Its definitely wayyyy too humid in Arkansas

 

[neo71665]

Its definitely wayyyy too humid in Arkansas

Maybe but I wouldn't go anywhere else.

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

Maybe but I wouldn't go anywhere else.

Eh. I love Arkansas but I also REALLY LOVE the mountains of North Carolina. It would be the only place I would move, if I moved there again lol
Moved home to have a baby but no one comes around so might as well move back right?

 

[neo71665]

Eh. I love Arkansas but I also REALLY LOVE the mountains of North Carolina. It would be the only place I would move, if I moved there again lol
Moved home to have a baby but no one comes around so might as well move back right?

I'm rooted where I'm at. I've moved off when I was younger but came back home.

 

[Allthefloofs]

Yeah the average humidity here in Arkansas is 70%, Arizona is 38%. Plays a huge part in how things dry out.

70% humidity would kill me now. I used to live in FL, and I can't even contemplate that now. It was 89% most days and I just dealt with it. The only way to tolerate 120 degrees is with 12% humidity.

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

I'm rooted where I'm at. I've moved off when I was younger but came back home.

I can understand that.
We live on property owned by family - they could decide they no longer want us in this house (even though they live hours to states away) and we’d have to move.
Given that none of our family hardly comes and visits us or even talks to us we’re kinda kicking ourselves for even coming back but we were able to care for my husbands great great grandma and she was able to hold her 3x great granddaughter before she passed away so that was the main reason we came home.
We’re 26/27 so really the world is our oyster. He wants to move to Costa Rica but he’s heavily fluent in Spanish and loves the tropics I just wanna raise our kiddo to love nature so im good wherever nature is haha

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

70% humidity would kill me now. I used to live in FL, and I can't even contemplate that now. It was 89% most days and I just dealt with it. The only way to tolerate 120 degrees is with 12% humidity.

Oh yeah the humidity is stupid here. It was at 90% at 90 degrees outside and rained for a full week it was miserable. My plants however loved it.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Oh yeah the humidity is stupid here. It was at 90% at 90 degrees outside and rained for a full week it was miserable. My plants however loved it.

So... Last week.

I'm in the FL Panhandle now. 1/2" of rain basically every day for the past 8 or 10. Its been unusually damp. Temps, thankfully, have been mostly mid 80s

 

[KyCoop]

Id like to throw in my 2 cents. I've been using sawdust (pine pellets) in my coop for 1 month now and I love it.
My coop is a 6 x 6 reach in with a vinyl floor. Im finding it very easy to scoop out and it works for me because I don't have acres and acres of space for soiled shavings.
I have 8 girls and I scoop out maybe 1 or 2 cups of poop a day with a cat litter scoop.

I live in Ky so we too get humidity and a lot of rain sometimes but so far so good.

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

Id like to throw in my 2 cents. I've been using sawdust (pine pellets) in my coop for 1 month now and I love it.
My coop is a 6 x 6 reach in with a vinyl floor. Im finding it very easy to scoop out and it works for me because I don't have acres and acres of space for soiled shavings.
I have 8 girls and I scoop out maybe 1 or 2 cups of poop a day with a cat litter scoop.

I live in Ky so we too get humidity and a lot of rain sometimes but so far so good.

Wouldn’t saw dust be too fine for their delicate respiratory system??