Stinky sand!

You could try mixing horse bedding pellets in it.
I've been using pine shavings so far since they are all indoors, but picked up some of that pelletized bedding once I saw the cost of a 40lb bag. Crossing my fingers that it works for me in the coop, run, or both.

Hi everyone! I switched to sand last fall for my coop due to the cost of shavings being too much. The sand just stinks like ammonia!
Yikes! That's what I am afraid of. I see lots of people swearing by sand, but it seems like most are sweeping out their coop/run or scraping poop boards on a daily basis, heavily dosing something like sweet pdz to help absorb the ammonia.

As an observer and not a practitioner, my brain just has a really hard time reconciling sand being a good solution if you're only tending to it once a week or less.
Deep litter seems to be the closest approximation to a jungle floor.
I'm contemplating the scientific method: split my coop and run down the middle using multiple different techniques at the same time and see what works best.
 

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