Fontaine
Songster
I live in South Florida that’s been particularly dry this summer and we are going into the dry season. I have a very open air coop,Mostly hardware cloth. Once a year I get a very coarse sand deliveredAnd replace all the existing coop sand. After a year of sifting poop every morning the sand has gotten quite dusty over time .it’s now fairly fine and dusty. I would like to hose it down in the morning after cleaning but then I don’t know am I inviting millions of bacteria to grow? I’m not sure which is worse inhaling the dust or the bacteria I’m going to be adding some nine week old chicks to this mix alsoAnd I don’t want to make them sick. Any thoughts? Also, any recommendations for a specific poop scoop for a little chicks and sand? I have sand in the Brooder. The sifter for reptiles shifts every single pebble away, which I don’t want to be left with such fine sand. A cat litter box scooper is so large the poop falls through the holes.It’s probably wishful thinking, but if anybody’s found the perfect scoop for little poop, I’d like to know lol thanks so much. I forgot to add the coop sits on hardware cloth which sits on Florida Sand so drainage is no issue.
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