need some help, please read carefully

I think the better question would be "where can I get it" then you can ask the person who works there "where is your ______?"
Lol.
There have been quite a few times where that was me in the store...worst part is when the person working there has no idea what you're talking about.....

well im pretty sure I know where I can get it, I just need to know what the safest and best lime to use is called
 
im asking what its called as im confused

Ah, I see; calcium carbonate is the right lime.

Dolomite is very similar but also has magnesium, and is better for adding to their food.

In this case, for adding to the soil, calcium carbonate is what you want. That's the true name of it but it may be sold under many other names --- if you double check that 'calcium carbonate' is the only ingredient in the bag, you can't go wrong.

Best wishes.
 
tea tree oil, the ultimate fungal destroyer. heals cuts, scrapes, anything. I have read not to get it into eyes. or to eat it. get all chickens out of coop and bleach the entire coop. wash everything. go around in the pen and dig up anything like mushrooms, plants, or anything green. cut about a foot of grass/plants around the entire pen so they cant reach anything if they stick their heads out.
 
Tea tree oil is another one of those amazingly beneficial oils, for sure.

I would just add that blanket-treating the soil with something that destroys all fungi will only be harmful in the long run as the natural and permanent control for harmful fungi is healthy soil, which of necessity includes beneficial fungi. For this reason I would never use bleach. Well, there's a lot of reasons I'd never use bleach. But each to their own; in severe disease outbreaks sometimes there isn't time to learn to do things in a healthier way because the window for that opportunity has been closed.

Treating the ground in such a way as to destroy all fungi is only going to leave temporarily cleaned ground before harmful fungi re-invade since they are more opportunistic and colonize faster in unhealthy environments than beneficial fungi do. Bleaching or using drugs on it is never going to make it healthy so disease will only ever be a repeat visitor. It's like applying toxic band-aids over and over and over and over again to a wound, hoping it's going to heal the wound. It won't. You need a healthy body to do that. Healthy soil, in this case. You cannot have 100% healthy animals or plants on soil that is unhealthy.

Liming can help make soil healthy; tea tree oil could too in small doses, especially if you were going to try the deep litter method using the same soil microbes and microorganisms that are native to (or adapted to) tea tree-growing regions. It can be very hostile to microorganisms not adapted to its chemical properties though.

Best wishes.
 
In saying that, I'm not trying to 'shoot down' your suggestion Elaine, it may be the best one for this situation for all I know; I'm just mentioning my reasons for not using bleach or targeting fungi wholesale. It's an alternative opinion, not intended to somehow discredit or undermine yours. Different solutions are required for varying situations.

Best wishes.
 

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