Play Sand or Regular Sand? Which one for Dust Bath Box?

[andischickenfarm]

I'm making a dust bath box for my girls and boy and I've read up and I decided to use some ashes from my wood stove, some potting soil, and some sand. But, I read where one person said to get the play sand and the other one said it didn't matter. Which one should I get? I would appreciate any advice on this.

After I get my dust bath box fixed and I see them using it I'll post some pics for you guys to see. I can stand there for ever watching them take a dust bath. They seem to enjoy it so much!

Thanks,
Andi

 

[chickmomma30]

i would go with the finer sand likeyou would get for a chinchila (sp?). THe finer the better.

 

[miss_thenorth]

With play sand,--don't they make it so it 'isn't' dusty? I would go with regular sand. this winter, I had a bag of peat moss in the barn, and thought they might like that. They did. Now, they are just scratching up the clay into a powder and they are loving this.. the idea is to coat their skin with dust, is it not? If so, anything dusty would work.

 

[SoccerMomof7]

I was wondering the same thing. I put a thing of regular sand with my month old chicks and they didn't want anything to do with it, but they will roll around in the wood chips.

 

[RioLindoAz]

In my Dusting pit, I add poultry dust. That way, when the chickens dust bathe, more of the mites & lice die