Haha I wish! It was -9 last night without windchill and we're not even into the coldest part of the winter yet.
It deifnitly needs to be wrapped unfortunately 
Thank you! My coop is 128 square feet of floor space so Im not ready to spend that kind of money for a solution that may not work quite yet if there are others in this thread that have the same bedding and the same dust problem but I'll deifnitly keep it in mind! Thank you its always good to have ideas in what works for others!
You could try one side and do a test.I have 11 in mine that are also 10 weeks old haha so you may be right on the dander, its a suggestion I'm definitely gonna keep in mind but I dont want to spend the money on replacing 128+ square feet of bedding if it isnt going to make a difference.
Maybe! I love my sand and really dont think its the sand but the chicken dust and dander so really not interested in changing all the bedding right now unless something proves that's the only way to fix the issue. It seems like anecdotal evidence shows it helps with dust for you and it doesn't help at all with the other person here. So right now it's 50/50 which isnt enough proof it works for me to make changes that big, sorry! If others weigh in and tip the scales then maybe!
Oh many won't. You'd have to search for other threads here.
Oh many won't. You'd have to search for other threads here.
Don't apologize as none is needed.
I just know horse bedding pellets was a little known secret around the time we started a decade ago and once we converted, just want to make sure others know about them.
Sand was never a consideration due to its not being absorbent, cold in winter, and homey here isn't into weekly raking rituals. We're old so needed simple.
I'm always worried I'm going to offend people haha so I'm always like yeah maybe 
Right now I'm partial to the sand because of how easy it is to scoop and sift their poop and i like that i can just hose the entire coop down sand and all when i clean it in the summer but I'm definitely keeping the horse pellets in the back of my mind because if it doesn't need to be scooped or if I decide to switch next winter it'll probably be to that!
Maybe I'll try it for the flooring in my grow out pen out back where all of my newly hatched chicks will be until they're 10 to 12ish weeks old after they tear up all the grass in there. How does it fare against the wind? The grow out pen doesn't have walls the way my coop does it's just hardware cloth with one foot of plastic paneling around the base, does the wind blow the pellets out of the run at all for you ever? If not that would be a great place to test it!Oh many won't. You'd have to search for other threads here.
Don't apologize as none is needed.
I just know horse bedding pellets was a little known secret around the time we started a decade ago and once we converted, just want to make sure others know about them.
Sand was never a consideration due to its not being absorbent, cold in winter, and homey here isn't into weekly raking rituals. We're old so needed simple.
The pellets aren't good for runs unless they are covered as as soon as it rains, they all become dustless, pure, sawdust. That's not so bad in itself, but it's wet then and you'd have to spread it out to dry it out. I wouldn't use those where exposed to rain/snow. People DO use pellets to dry up a muddy area though.
@Debbie292d will have to tell us but based on what shes saying in the thread I think its more like the deep litter method where you dont clean the poop jsut add more on top as needed and then just change out all the bedding once or twice a year. But may be wrong!
