Post a wanted ad on craigslist of items that you want. The worst case scenario is you don't get any responses, but plenty of people are doing remodels with lots of scrap stuff like that.
You might even check flooring places to see if they have just some regular bits and pieces and just make a...
They're just regular bales of shavings from TSC. I think they expand to 8 cu. ft. so they go pretty far. For a 12x12 stall to bed pretty deep, I end up using around 3 bales, so I would get 3, go as deep as you think and leave the rest to sprinkle as a refresher.
I'm not sure about the sand. I...
This lime is, well, lime. It's a powder. I think I pay around $15/50lb bag of lime last time. It's a fine powder, almost like powdered sugar.
The purpose of putting it under the stall mats and sprinkling the stalls is to basically kill everything there. I just used a cup and sprinkled it over...
I haven't used it in the coops, but used it in the horse stalls to kill the stuff under the stall mats and in really nasty stalls. If you breathe in enough of it, it will burn your lungs and it does hurt to breathe it in when you're just sprinkling the stuff.
I would rather use shavings or...