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Kitty litter box is too small, get a mortar tub from Home Depot $8
Then do a bag of playsand (also at Home Depot) and dump it in, and a few big scoops of DE, MIX.
Get a cat pan spoon to sift the poops and crud out of it the birds will kick into it.
And the bestest and cheapest feeders are a 5 gallon bucket, cut a head opening in as shown, the birds cannot beak-kick the feed all over the floor.
This poultry dust can be added to the dust bath as well, it is organically based .
take the top off the bucket...see how they cannot beak-kick the feed out on the floor ?
I have had every kind of feeder and they birds will beak it out all over the floor, but not this way.
With standard comb roosters, put the hole higher and larger..for chicks or youngsters, lower.
I have 5 gallon buckets that fit the birds I have, inside each coop.
Edited to add: I use compressed straw in the nest boxes, it is soft...the birds love it.
These compressed bales look small, but they are COMPRESSED and HEAVY and when you cut the string, they will take over the room!
But you will have plenty and the birds love it.
Each straw is run through rollers that smash it, so it has no hollows like a stiff drinking straw.
Regular straw is stiff, nonabsorbant and the birds cannot really get a nice curvy nest out of it.
This is just what I use.
Everyone has a way~~~
I have no idea how the new car is gonna do in the snow. Ugg
