Ashes

[sab]

So I just cleaned out my pellet stove and have a small container of wood ash. Should I dump it in the compost bin or dump it in the run for the girls to wallow in?? I think I read somewhere that wood ash was good for dust bathing but I might be wrong.

 

[LeezyBeezy]

I've read they like to bathe in it too.

 

[gryeyes]

Mix it with sand, or peat moss. They'll love it as dust-bathing material.

 

[Cebarmlds]

If it's ash from good clean wood is the only way I would use it for chickens, my DH gets wood scraps from home construction sites and it is usually varnished or stained. He puts that in the garage wood stove I don't like the smell and wouldn't give those ashes to my ladies! I won't even put it in the compost, maybe I'm over reacting? I don't think so.

Those ashes go out where the chickens aren't allowed to go.