What to do about the smell.......

[BantyChickMom]

TSC here carries the drystall, don't know about sweet PDZ

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Our Purina store carries Sweet PDZ also

I'll check the feed store I use in Aberdeen, they may carry it if yours in Sanford does...otherwise sounds like Tractor Supply might be the place with the drystall and we ahv eone of those in Fayetteville. I've never used either one of those products, sur ehope my chickens dont have adverse reactions from something so new to them...worrying mother hen here, lol!​

 

[patandchickens]

You could put the Sweet PDZ or Stall Dri down as a temporary measure if the smell really bugs you (but, is it really lingering, or has it gone away now that you've gotten the wet stuff out of the run?)... however it is not really going to be a good ongoing solution if we're talking about an outdoor run. Yeah, it dries things up a *little*, but not compared to, say, rain

and once it is wet it doesn't do much further IME.

Have you thought about putting less organic material in the pen, maybe sand instead, just rake the pooey bits out a couple times a week?

Wow Darlene are you in the Aberdeen NC area? I did a whole lot of my work in grad school just south of there, in the temporary ponds in the gamelands area east of Hoffman. Spent a lot of time down there, got car stuck in deep sand of roads more than once. Small world!

Pat

 

[Scrambled Egg]

See, I knew I liked you Pat, we have alot in common! I work in Aberdeen, live in Fayetteville. I know exactly where Hoffman is and most of the areas around it...I like that weed, the yellow mullien, that grows in the right of way all in Hoffman!! Stands up tall like a tobacco plant and has yellow stalks of flowers, cool looking.

Haven't thought about the sand either, would that be play sand?

 

[patandchickens]

I have not yet used sand myself (is in the plan for the new run to be built this summer, though), but I think people use just sort of whatever's cheapest?

If you'd have asked me fifteen or twenty years ago I could have told you where the 'dirt' road in the gamelands was where I got the car stuck the most often, as I recall it had sections of pretty much pure sand, you could just go out there with a shovel and some sacks

I don't suppose you know if John's BBQ is still there, I think it was somewhere between Aberdeen and Southern Pines, on 1 or 15-501 I don't remember, E side of the road, I think the road bends there or has a Y intersection with another road? They had my favorite bbq of anywhere in the whole state - which is to say, the whole world. <drooling> Funnily enough, as I type this I have a batch of 'fake bbq' finishing up in the oven - it comes out close enough for those of us a thousand miles too far away, but is NOT the real thing. Sigh!

Pat

 

[nccountrygirl]

I go right through Hoffman on my way home to SC. I used to live in Raeford in the 70's so I would go to the town of Aberdeen all the time to shop.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Yep, John's BBQ is still there, same place on 15/501, it's a landmark! There has been a tremendous amount of growth in the past two years though, new Petsmart, Starbucks...moved into the 21st century with the retail, lol!!

Yeah, I can see Hoffman as a cut through to SC, we've been that way too going to the beach years ago.

 

[AhBee01]

We tried sand in the duck pens, It just got tamped down to much from all the wetness! We started using the pine shavings and that has helped! It does smell bad after it gets really wet, We shovrl it out every couple of weeks! I never thought to use the stall dry in the runs!
Brenda

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I like the clean fresh smell of the pine shavings and those are readily available at my feed store so I may just put those in the pen and not introduce anything new to my chickens routine. I wasn't sure about the sand anyway so glad to hear I didn't miss anything there.

 

[chickenannie]

Hi, Sorry everyone, but what is DE? Probably something very obvious, but could someone tell me?
Thanks!

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