Deep Litter

[Guest peter4pm]

Whats the best thing for keeping the floor bone dry under floor grills..and stopping the pigeon droppings growing hair in the damp weather ....options appreciated ...cheers...Peter

[ribble]

Whats the best thing for keeping the floor bone dry under floor grills..and stopping the pigeon droppings growing hair in the damp weather ....options appreciated ...cheers...Peter

 

I'm not an expert or anything but if you have furry droppings i'd say your ventilation needs adjusting.

[blackdog]

put yourself some cat litter granuals under mate

[geordie1234]

i scrape mines out everyday so never had the problem mate

[retired]

Used Hemcore under my grills for years and now still use it in all the lofts.

 

Now there are very few birds here though may revert back to sand and riddle it out every few days

[ribble]

Val, how deep is the sand you put down?

[retired]

Val, how deep is the sand you put down?

 

When i used to use it usually a nice dusting approx half inch so will do it the same this time around - always used to lay it out on the path way in nice weather to try out for a day or so and then add to loft.

[ribble]

Cheers, i'm going on holiday soon and going to put some down while away to make it easy for the guy looking after them.

[geordie1234]

is it better for your birds to put something like hay or easybedding down rather than just wood was thinking of putting sawdust down or hay

[Guest chrisss]

easibed the best you can use, i never thought about deep litter before [it was the lazy mans way of looking after pigeons]then i got very ill,it helped no end, and i am convinced the birds look better for it, but it must be kept very dry [gobi desert dry]but then the guys using it will know that,but to be truthful if your birds droppings have fur on them, then your loft is damp and YOU ARE NOT CLEANING THEM OUT ENOUGH,

[Guest peter4pm]

I'm not saying the droppings grow fur instantly ...im talking after a few days of lying under the grills ect and only in the damp rainy weather when we get it for long periods..hence why i was asking for the best solution for deep litter for underneath the grills ..somthing to dry out the droppings.....So i guess cat litter or easibed ...where can easibed be purchased ??

 

thanks for all the replys btw most appreciated ..peter

[Guest Owen]

If your dung grows fungus (hair) your ventilation is all wrong. As has already been said, you need to do something about it. The droppings should be firm, round and no hair even after days.

[sammy]

HERE PETE YI WANT TO SEE DRY DROPPINGS AND HOW ITS DONE TAKE A WALK DOWN AND SEE ME LAD

[Guest peter4pm]

if my memory serves me right ...u scrape your floor daily sammy correct ?

[ALF]

is it better for your birds to put something like hay or easybedding down rather than just wood was thinking of putting sawdust down or hay

 

AS LONG AS IT IS KEPT DRY GEO REMEMBER THE FLOOR IN MY STOCK LOFT AS DRY AS A BONE AND THE FLOOR HAS HARDLY BEEN TOUCHED THIS YEAR AT ALL AND I THINK THE LAST TIME I DONE THE WHOLE FLOOR WAS ABOUT 18MONTHS AGO

[BIGSNAW]

I'm not an expert or anything but if you have furry droppings i'd say your ventilation needs adjusting.

[Guest geordiejen]

mines gets scraped out once weekly and their isnt any fur on mines.ive tried deep litter but it gets to be a real mess during the moult and it usually gets stuck to my boots and ends up all over the path.

[Guest peter4pm]

sounds about right geordie m8

[steve]

EASY BED I USE

QUALITY

[Guest geordiejen]

i found deep litter to be good but it still needs managed correctly.after the moult i used to take out a pail full and sieve all the dead feather bloom out.a large piece of plastic hold the sieve over the middle of the plastic and let the sand sieve through and the bloom would blow away in the wind.i would throw out any clumps and replace with kiln dried sand if nessessery.daily turning of the sand in the loft kept it dry.health wise its not the best but if managed correctly its a good thing to use.

[fletch]

found it great for birds as they liked to lie in it, but was a mess outside the loft when you went in and out of it

[geordie1234]

i nearly bought that easibed today but can only imgine it will end up all over the garden so just going to stick to scraping it out daily

[Guest IB]

I have deep litter that's raked over once a week, top usually comes off OK (feathers etc) and that is bagged and binned.

 

Perches and nest boxes are scraped daily, bagged and binned.

 

I also have a pair of sandals that never leave the loft. And an old pair of slip-ons for going in and out, so next to nothing is carried outside.

[JohnQuinn]

The best stuff i ever used to get the litter started was Spill Dry/Oil Spill out of the steelworks. It was like Kilpatricks grit to look at and dried the droppings in no time, great stuff. I canny get it now so when i built a new loft about 3 years ago, i scraped the droppings but left them on the floor of the loft turning them once or twice until they dried out. Now its like powder, i only clean the rough out leaving the rest to degenerate into the existing litter, bone dry and the doos look great

[Wiley]

The best stuff i ever used to get the litter started was Spill Dry/Oil Spill out of the steelworks. It was like Kilpatricks grit to look at and dried the droppings in no time, great stuff. I canny get it now so when i built a new loft about 3 years ago, i scraped the droppings but left them on the floor of the loft turning them once or twice until they dried out. Now its like powder, i only clean the rough out leaving the rest to degenerate into the existing litter, bone dry and the doos look great

brillant way to do it do this from may to the end of young bird racing, absolutely brillant and always a dry loft