What type of dirt to buy to put in a bin for a dust bath?

[BearSwampChick]

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How are they getting the dirt inside their coop ? As for the holes outside in the run , oh my GOD yes , like they digging a tunnel .

LOL...Give me a break, I'm still new to the lingo...They were in the run. I thought you have a chicken house and a coop, instead of a coop and a run.

Well, if you want to get technical about it, according to Barbara Kilarski (Keep Chickens!), the whole thing is called a coop and the coop contains the henhouse and the run.

The exact quote: "The term coop refers to the entire hen habitat, which includes a chicken run and a henhouse. The chicken run is the outdoor portion of the coop, enclosed by chicken wire......The henhouse is a fully enclosed wood structure inside or adjoining the chicken run."

Edited for quote by author.

 

[cajunlizz]

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LOL...Give me a break, I'm still new to the lingo...They were in the run. I thought you have a chicken house and a coop, instead of a coop and a run.

Well, if you want to get technical about it, according to Gail Damerow, the whole thing is called a coop and the coop contains the henhouse and the run.

Well , YES LETS get technical ...... COOP & RUN are 2 different things . COOP is yes a hen house , for sleeping , roosting , LAYING EGGS . A RUN , is where they are ON THE GROUND , closed in area and predator protected , running , playing , eating , ETC.

 

[BearSwampChick]

My mistake, I guess. Or not.

 

[sunbury chick]

Bearswampchick ,Shame on you,what a terrible mistake! Just kidding...

 

[BearSwampChick]

Lol, Sandy! Where've you been?

 

[sunbury chick]

Took the grandson camping,I'm worn out today!

 

[PoultryPedia]

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Diamataceous earth is different than regular dirt. It kills external and internal parasites without harming chickens so can be used as a natural dewormer, etc.
I bought paving sand for grit because the soil around my house is very non-rocky and I was sick of having to carefully look around to pick up appropriate grit material for my chickens that were cooped up (who go through a surprisingly large amount of grit). Much quicker to just get a scoop of stuff from a cheap bag of sand.
But free-ranging chickens can find grit stuff easily themselves. I have had free-ranges still have mite problems even when they dustbathed in dirt quite a bit. I think this year I'll sprinkle some DE in some of their favorite bathing spots.

 

[ravenfeathers]

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Well, if you want to get technical about it, according to Gail Damerow, the whole thing is called a coop and the coop contains the henhouse and the run.

Well , YES LETS get technical ...... COOP & RUN are 2 different things . COOP is yes a hen house , for sleeping , roosting , LAYING EGGS . A RUN , is where they are ON THE GROUND , closed in area and predator protected , running , playing , eating , ETC.

sounds like you're picking on semantics to me. you say tomayto, BearSwampChick says tomahto. *shrugs*

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i suspect that WikkitGateFarm was more bemused by people buying play sand than DE, though i could be wrong. of course, in a lot of places, the soil isn't ideal for dust bathing, so folks who feel they must (or just want to) buy play sand aren't really that odd, IMO.

 

[cthrash1]

you guys crack me up! I'm so glad I found this site.

 

[cajunlizz]

crack you up ? you have not seen anything yet . LOL