"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[NonnasBabies]

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I wonder if it's best to wait until things dry up or can you put it in there when it's all muddy???

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Good idea about the sand.

A couple of our La-yers on here said it works good, It seems like it would to me.

Sand has held up remarkably well in the peafowl aviary.

Pic of sand on Day 1 in my peafowl avairy (January 2011)

Pics of sand about 1 week ago in my peafowl aviary after all of the horrible rain. (July 2011)

 

[MandyH]

We had wet, muddy runs before I figured out the sand thing. The main thing is to make SURE you get the sand deep enough to do its job. 6 inches is what worked great for us.

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Great, thanks for the info!!

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

Thanks for the info x2. I was wondering how thick to put it. I called earlier and around here its $17 a ton, cheep cheep

 

[MandyH]

Yeah we had seven coops with runs at the time and we hauled sand for days. I didn't keep up with how much we got, there's no telling how many tons we hauled.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Sand has an average weight of 2,700 pounds per cubic yard. One ton of sand is 2,000 pounds, therefore, there are 1.35 Tons in one cubic yard of sand.

length in feet X width in feet X depth in feet/27=cubic yards
Sand = 2,700 lbs/cubic yards (*This value is specific to Sand)

*2,700 lbs|1 Cu Yd * 1 Ton|2,000 lbs = 1.35 Ton|Cu Yd
OR 1|1.35 = 0.74074 Cu Yd in 1 Ton of Sand​

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Will you be picking it up yourself or will they deliver it to you?

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

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Will you be picking it up yourself or will they deliver it to you?

Thats picking it up myself.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Will you be picking it up yourself or will they deliver it to you?

Thats picking it up myself.

That's not too bad.