Sweet PDZ versus DRYSTALL? for odor

[Missa Chickabee]

Time to fix his favorite dinner!

yeah. a something for after supper.

 

[amenfarm]

Dry Stall" is a naturally occurring lightweight volcanic aggregate. Due to its porosity, it is an ideal medium for aerating, softening, and draining your soil. from stall dry web site-- I do not know if it also is a zeolite product.
I use Sweet PDZ in a waist high poop boards and attached roosts, using a kitty scooper and shaking each scooper full, hardly any PDZ sticks to the poo. My coop has NO manure smell, I first used it in my donkey's stall under the pine shavings and prefer it over the more caustic lime. Sweet PDZ is zeolite a naturally occurring mineral that instantly binds ammonia/moisture, and is safe for animals and can be composted. Ammonia gas causes all sorts of respiratory problems in all animals, so anything that gets rid of the ammonia problem gets my vote. I do plan to use stall dry to condition the soil for drainage just in front of our barn.

 

[LittleSticks]

Dry Stall" is a naturally occurring lightweight volcanic aggregate. Due to its porosity, it is an ideal medium for aerating, softening, and draining your soil. from stall dry web site-- I do not know if it also is a zeolite product.
I use Sweet PDZ in a waist high poop boards and attached roosts, using a kitty scooper and shaking each scooper full, hardly any PDZ sticks to the poo. My coop has NO manure smell, I first used it in my donkey's stall under the pine shavings and prefer it over the more caustic lime. Sweet PDZ is zeolite a naturally occurring mineral that instantly binds ammonia/moisture, and is safe for animals and can be composted. Ammonia gas causes all sorts of respiratory problems in all animals, so anything that gets rid of the ammonia problem gets my vote. I do plan to use stall dry to condition the soil for drainage just in front of our barn.

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[Missa Chickabee]

YAY! Did the drive and have my stock of PDZ. I think it will have been worth the trip. Now to get that elevated box and roost built.
Did you all use plywood for the box bottom?

 

[amenfarm]

we used OSB--because that what we had. I emailed Sweet PDZ and they said that their product works on soil condition as well--so no stall dry for me.

 

[dearnley]

i will be getting some pdz tomorrow my coop is clean but the ammonia odor wow

 

[Prettypuddles]

I use the granular form of Sweet PDZ in the trays below the roosting bars. I scoop it out with a 'heavy duty' kitty litter scoop every day. It takes less than 5 minutes and no dust. I put the droppings in a bucket and have a very special compost pile for my 'Bucket of Gold'! I have 14 chickens and I have absolutely no smell in the coop.

They spend most of the day outside, but do come in to eat. I keep their food in the coop to deter other birds and 'wildlife' from getting it. I have pine shavings on the floor of the coop and it stays nice and clean.


Above is a pic of the back of the coop with the back doors wide open. You can see the roosting bars near the top with the trays filled with Sweet PDZ underneath them. On the floor is pine shavings (the dark spots are feathers, they're molting right now). I generously sprinkled food grade DE on perimeter of the floor and then put a bag of pine shavings on top. The pine shavings stay dry and fresh, since most of the droppings are in the roosting trays. If I see a poop or wet spot, I scoop it out while cleaning the roosting box area. I fluff up the shavings like movie popcorn too, to keep the floor dry.


This is a pic of how easy it is to clean! ( I just knew you wanted to see this!
You can see that I am using the granular form of it. One bag seems to be enough for both trays.
I recommend Sweet PDZ, especially with roosting trays. Its as easy to clean as the kitty litter box.

I am now going to try it in the run area. That can get a little smelly. I will try just sprinkling it on the ground. I am not sure if it will dissolve or not yet. I will experiment. I have read that it is completely safe if a chicken happens to eat it, so I am not worried about that. I live in a subdivision and I don't want to offend my neighbors. So far so good tho! They're all waiting for the girls to start laying to buy my eggs!

Front of the coop.

 

[Mike Fitz]

I'm also using Sweet PDZ granules in poop trays below the roosts. I put a frame of treated 1x1's with 1" hardware cloth on "L" brackes a couple inches above the trays to keep the chicks out of the trays



Easy to clean, just lift the wire frame off and use a kitty litter scoop to sift out the waste.

 

[nolson]

Is that Sweet PDZ the same as this one at TSC?  It says it's for stalls... just want to make sure it's OK to use in the run... especially with the chickens eating everything they can get their beak on.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/sweet-pdz-reg-stall-refresher-25-lb--5065990#BVRRWidgetID

Yes it is the same thing and is safe if they eat it

 

[oldhen2345]

I use StallDry in my coop. The wood floor is covered with linoleum. I clean the coop, put down some StallDry, sprinkle a little DE then put in fresh large flake pine shavings. I top off with a little StallDry and DE. I do put a handful of Spruce the Coop in the nesting boxes. the hens love the dried flower buds and I love the smell. I had not thought to put the StallDry in the run where it gets wet in rainy weather. The run is sand, so the water doesn't stand, but the smell of wet poop is horrendous. Bet I give it a try this week.