Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[drstratton]

PDZ in the brooder helps for in between picking up poops, do you use that?

Okay, what is PDZ...I've got nothing coming up in my brain?

 

[drstratton]

I think I need a new weather app. It was certainly well below freezing but not a cloud in the sky at 8am and certainly not snowing.

Well, at least with this one you have the opportunity to live on the edge a little....

 

[ChicoryBlue]

It's a volcanic-type rock that absorbs ammonia and stores it as nitrogen...how, I don't know. but it works. I know the Z stands for zeolite. Then when you clean out the bedding and compost it, the nitrogen is there and is available to plants, and the pdz is just tiny rocks and is neutral....People use it in horse stalls all the time. BYC people use it often on poop boards, like cat litter, makes it easy to scoop and keeps the odor way down. I use granules, sprinkled on the litter in the run when necessary, and under the roost on the poop tray there topped with hemp. Here's a picture of a bag I googled. A search on BYC will provide a lot more information.

 

[BY Bob]

The one who speaks of pants.

Nicely done. I wouldn't take crap from me either!

 

[BY Bob]

I think I need a new weather app. It was certainly well below freezing but not a cloud in the sky at 8am and certainly not snowing.

I think you may be correct. Then again, maybe Mother Nature is just messing with you.

 

[BY Bob]

It's a volcanic-type rock that absorbs ammonia and stores it as nitrogen...how, I don't know. but it works. I know the Z stands for zeolite. Then when you clean out the bedding and compost it, the nitrogen is there and is available to plants, and the pdz is just tiny rocks and is neutral....People use it in horse stalls all the time. BYC people use it often on poop boards, like cat litter, makes it easy to scoop and keeps the odor way down. I use granules, sprinkled on the litter in the run when necessary, and under the roost on the poop tray there topped with hemp. Here's a picture of a bag I googled. A search on BYC will provide a lot more information.
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I also have not heard of this. Do you then through the stuff in your garden?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

It's a volcanic-type rock that absorbs ammonia and stores it as nitrogen...how, I don't know. but it works. I know the Z stands for zeolite. Then when you clean out the bedding and compost it, the nitrogen is there and is available to plants, and the pdz is just tiny rocks and is neutral....People use it in horse stalls all the time. BYC people use it often on poop boards, like cat litter, makes it easy to scoop and keeps the odor way down. I use granules, sprinkled on the litter in the run when necessary, and under the roost on the poop tray there topped with hemp. Here's a picture of a bag I googled. A search on BYC will provide a lot more information.
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No I didn't think of that. It sounds very similar to the Lime we use for the horse stalls when they are gutted. Sprinkle a coffee can full on their pee spot after its scraped out and cover with sawdust bedding. Even in the heat of summer, no stinky stalls. When the chicks in the incubator hatch, I'm going to see how just a tiny sprinkle of lime does.

 

[RoyalChick]

Mugshots for Monday

 

[RoyalChick]

I also have not heard of this. Do you then through the stuff in your garden?

On BYC it seems like most of the folk who use poop boards use PDZ. I have never tried it myself but if you search in here you will find lots of people swear by it.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

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Good luck to you, hope you end up with a very successful hatch. I go on Chickmas day watch tomorrow. Technically momma hen wont be at 21 days until Thursday, but, she's always hatched her chicks about 2 days early. When she was off eating yesterday I picked up one of her eggs and listened, no cheeping but could hear a chick moving around inside. Cross your fingers everyone, as the one egg I have candled twice and last time had a bouncy chick in it, was the BUTTER egg. Mom may get her Butter baby after all.