For those of you who use sand

[yellowirenut]

ive used a shovel and turned it over..with sand its easy enough you do not need your tiller.

 

[BirdWalkFarm]

Sand ? We love sand ! This sand is light colored and fine , I assume it comes from a river . This is my second dumptruck load . It was 165.00 delivered .

 

[Kay56]

That looks great...thanks for the informative picture!

 

[Nightfeather]

I think i am going to move to sand

 

[brlarson84]

I wouldn't worry about clumps, your chickens are just going to dig and dust bath in it. they will break up any clumps on the surface.as for weed fabric (coming from a landscaper) if you are planning on 4 inches of sand weed fabric would be useless as weeds will just grow on top of it.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

It really doesn't matter what "type" of sand you use.

It's all just sand in the end

Clumping is due more to moisture as long as it's ALL sand, without a lot of other soil types mixed in

Get whatever is cheapest and easiest to find

 

[ScottKCooper]

I am new to all of this, and trying to research before asking questions, but I wondered - what about rock dust? I've got that in my barn stalls, and although I'm going to use a chicken tractor in all but the coldest months, I was thiking of creating a winter coop in one of the stalls. it has rock dust (and both stalls need more) so if that works, I'll be set. if not, then I will create a 2 by 6 "tray" for sand, and a coop / cage for the top of it.