I'm very excited to belong to this great community. Have already learned a lot from reading all the excellent articles and advice. I have 21 beautiful baby chicks, they're about 3 weeks old and growing fast. 12 Isa-Browns, 1 Jersey, 4 Ambers and 4 Black sex-links. I have them inside and need to make them something with more space. At this age can I use a mixture of sand and Diatomaceous Earth as bedding for them? When I move them outside our plan is to use this as bedding, but I wonder if it's ok for now at this stage? P.S. All of you make me feel so normal!!!
. You might get a better answer to your question if you post on the forum for Raising Backyard Chickens - Raising Baby Chicks. I have no experience with those mediums but I don't see why you couldn't as a free range chick would have access to dirt (kind of the same thing) from day one. I am not sure about the Diatomacious earth. That may be something to hold for later but as I said, I have no experience with that, we used pine shavings until they went out to the coop with a dirt floor.
