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  1. Chwicks

    Sand or Shavings??

    The chickens made MUCH more of a mess with the shavings. I HATED them! With the sand I can easily pick up poop, rake it over, and only have to change it out twice a year. Plus, we add it to our compost pile and the chickens love the constant access to places to scratch, dust bathe, and peck for...
  2. Chwicks

    Sand or Shavings??

    Trust me, I get it. Lol. We have 21 chickens, so it doesn’t always look like this... I do try to keep it as close to this as possible though; and using sand makes that a heck of a lot easier.
  3. Chwicks

    Sand or Shavings??

    Thanks so much! We have an aggregate company that sales all kinds of soils, sands, rocks, etc. about 45 minutes away from us. It’s one of those big places with mounds of soils, concretes, limestone, etc. We just go there and tell them what we’d like and they load up our truck with a backhoe...
  4. Chwicks

    Sand or Shavings??

    We have river sand in our coop. We also have a plywood floor, but we laid down peel and stick linoleum before putting the sand into the coop. I scoop out the poop with a retractable, metal, kitty litter scooper a couple times a day. There’s no smell whatsoever. We were using shavings in their...
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