Bentonite and Zeolite Litter

[WheatenLover]

To start, I’m located in Canada where getting PDZ is basically impossible. Very sadly.
I am slowly renovating a coop and want to put up poop boards under the birds roosts, everyone suggests PDZ (Zeolite) as it seems to be perfect for that purpose.

I am hoping I may have found an alternative. A farm store in my province has Natural cat litter, made from only Benonite clay and Zeolite. Research comes back as Benonite is used in layer feed occasionally.

Link: https://hashbrowns.shop/products/fresh-and-natural-cat-litter?variant=49403981660476

Has anyone used this product? Would it be an appropriate substitute to PDZ?

 

[Ted Brown]

No experience with this product.

I live in Canada about 2 hours drive from the NY state border, Ogdensburg is at the end of the bridge. Happily there is a Tractor Supply outlet about 5 minutes further on; their customer service is exceptional. I make a trip once per year and pre-order 10 bags of PDZ ($12.99/bag). If you are close to the border and have a TSC nearby well worth the trip.

 

[aart]

I am hoping I may have found an alternative. A farm store in my province has Natural cat litter, made from only Benonite clay and Zeolite.

It might work out.
Where/how will you use it...on a poop board?

Research comes back as Benonite is used in layer feed occasionally.

Probably used in feed as an anti-caking agent.

 

[perkolator]

Zeolite absorbs smells due to particle charge of the mineral itself, where Bentonite is basically a clay type that’s able to absorb liquids at a much higher rate. They’re different minerals and not really substitutes for one another.

 

[WheatenLover]

It might work out.
Where/how will you use it...on a poop board?


Probably used in feed as an anti-caking agent.

Yes, it would just be used on the poop board. Rest of one would be shavings like normal!

Zeolite absorbs smells due to particle charge of the mineral itself, where Bentonite is basically a clay type that’s able to absorb liquids at a much higher rate. They’re different minerals and not really substitutes for one another.

Yes, they both have different jobs. With the litter having both I’m hopeful it would be great on a poop board to hold and dry droppings

 

[AinaWGSD]

I think it should be an acceptable substitute. I theoretically have access to sweet pdz here, but TSC is the only store within an hour of us that has it and they aren't in a town we are usually going to anyway. So my husband picked up a bag of Stall Dry, which is 67% diatomaceous earth and 33% calcium bentonite.

We've only been using it for about a week but so far it's working great. Super easy to sift with a standard cat litter scoop. When I posted a question about how stall dry compares to sweet pdz I had 1 response who said they had used both and that they found the stall dry to be less dusty.

 

[aart]

Yes, it would just be used on the poop board.

Pics on ad looks like mostly clay, so probably won't reduce ammonia as well as straight up zeolite.
Also wonders if the clay is granulated, let us know how it works out.

Rest of one would be shavings like normal!

Rest of one what?