“Chicks Dig it” premium Sand

[Alchemist]

Hi! I recently started using the premium sand called chicks dig it, in my coop. It’s amazing! Expensive but worth it so far.
Was curious if anyone has used it in their brooder. We have 7, two week old baby chicks in our large brooder and wanted to use the sand but wasn’t sure if it was safe.

Anyone else using it?

Thanks!

 

[nuthatched]

How does it compare to normal sand?
It doesn't look that impressive from the website, tbh

 

[Alchemist]

Normal sand is dusty, well because it’s sand. This is almost like the smallest pea gravel I could imagine. It’s dust free. I opened 4 bags and dumped them out, it wasn’t the poof of dust that normally occurs. I guess the best comparison would be standard cat litter vs the blue crystal litter.

I use hemp bedding in the brooder now. It’s just hard to clean, IMO.

 

[Sunni_Chick]

Hi! I recently started using the premium sand called chicks dig it, in my coop. It’s amazing! Expensive but worth it so far.
Was curious if anyone has used it in their brooder. We have 7, two week old baby chicks in our large brooder and wanted to use the sand but wasn’t sure if it was safe.

Anyone else using it?

Thanks!

I am! But I wouldn't use it in the brooder just because they might eat too much of it.

We are new to chicken tending and are just getting going. My husband and I took on the adventure of building our coop/run because nothing we could purchase was big enough for the long run. Ended up buying a small coop/run just to get the babies outside once they were old enough (you can see it to the left in the pictures - figure it will work in the future for a grow out coop). They are 12 weeks as of this week and are finally in the new run. It is 12X24 feet and has 127 bags of PCS (Premium Chicken Sand - Chicks Dig it) for a 3in deep bedding. We obviously need more but that will have to come AFTER we finish the coop. Inside the coop we have been using hemp bedding and will be doing deep litter in the new coop when done.

So far I have scooped the poo 3 times in the 2 weeks they have been in the run. I ended up getting a different scoop because the first one was letting too much of the droppings through...the new one works great and honestly is easier on my back

There is a 2ft predator apron all the way around with the mulch and stone on top of that. I just started landscaping this weekend while hubby works on the feeder hopper and the framing inside for the coop. There are 2 roosting bars back by the shade cloth for a short term solution until the coop is completed. As I said we are very close to completion.