Chicken dust bath

[Ascholten]

Do NOT use quick crete. It's a concrete / cement mix that probably contains activated lime in it, which will burn them. Not to mention if it gets wet it's going to stick to them and cause issues.

Mix regular dirt with some sand works well. If your yard is clean, ie no insecticides fertilizers, you may even be able to just shovel up some of that dirt into a box and use that for them.

Aaron

Edit:
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/st-whatsinside-quikrete/

an interesting link

 

[aart]

Quickcrete *may* have plain sand as part of their product line.

They do. Several kinds of plain sand(with no cement added).

OK, Home Depot told my daughter that Quickcrete was contractor sand. I will just throw it out and see if I can't find multipurpose sand. Thank you for your response.

Post some pics of the package, showing all the labels.

 

[saysfaa]

Yes, a picture of the label will help. It is possible people in your area use the terms differently than people around here do.

It might not be worth the time, but you could dump a big spoonful in a glass jar of water to see. If it has cement in it, some gray cloudy puffs will billow up.

 

[aart]

It might not be worth the time, but you could dump a big spoonful in a glass jar of water to see. If it has cement in it, some gray cloudy puffs will billow up.

Not a bad idea......but even plain sand might have floating dust in it.
But wetting some and letting it sit over night would tell the tale,
if you have experience with mixing concrete.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Read the label carefully.

Quickcrete *may* have plain sand as part of their product line. They are a brand with many kinds of cement and cement-related products.

Andddd, thats the one I got, and went home a looked at it as was like, something is not right about this product! It was like, sand castle making shit. Its still sittin’ in a bag. Maybe i can use it to soak up oil spill in garage