Total replacement of wood shavings with sharp sand: due to high demand of wood shavings as bedding material and scarcity in some areas, I will advice farmers that have sharp sand in there locality to use it as bedding material. I've used it in my farm and the birds are doing great. Happy farming!!!
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I will have to look for sharp sand too, wood shaven has become so scarce in my area in ibadan. I used to buy a rice sack full for 200 Naira early this year, now i have to beg people to sell same quantity to me for 400 Naira. The big poultry companies always come with trailers/trucks to buy all the wood shaven at Bodija market.

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I will have to look for sharp sand too, wood shaven has become so scarce in my area in ibadan. I used to buy a rice sack full for 200 Naira early this year, now i have to beg people to sell same quantity to me for 400 Naira. The big poultry companies always come with trailers/trucks to buy all the wood shaven at Bodija market.

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‬: I have read with keen observation to all that's said about wood shavings and sand. Lots of people have tried to cut corners especially when wood shavings is hard to come by. Recently, in a pen capacity of 10,000 broilers, divided into 10 partitions, sharp sand was used in one partition to compensate for the wood shavings which was sufficient to go round. It was good at the beginning giving minimal wetness. And later at 2nd week, the sand was still in good condition, the birds were clean and there was no incidence of cocci or enteritis. At 3rd week however, the birds became dirty and there were little traces of blood (not frank) in their feaces. Not alarming but indicating something subclinical. The cleanliness of the birds reduced seriously as majority of birds became obviously unkept. Meanwhile, a similar observation was made in the other partitions in terms of bloody feaces, but negligible. The birds in partitions with wood shavings were still clean. At 4th week, the bloody feaces disappeared after administering pantacox to cover the birds against most culprit of enteritis and coccidiosis. But there was an obvious need to change the litter material is the partition with sand. The partitions with wood shavings still looked clean and dry. At 5th weeks, I still had to make sure the litter was packed in the partition with sand because of the obviously bad state. At 6th weeks however, the wood shavings were bad and needed immediate change. But then, my production cycle is for 6 weeks so the pen was just emptied. Note that in between, other activities took place that I couldn't state here because of time. From my primary observation, sand can be used to on smaller birds and changed more frequently when the birds are older and as soon as the litter becomes wet, odour becomes offensive, and during and outbreak to control level of contamination in the pen. Personally, I still prefer wood shavings.

A lot of factors should be considered though... Ventilation, stocking density, and water spillage should be closely monitored to avoiding having to change litter materials too frequently. A well managed litter is always more efficient and preferable than changed litter.

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Had tried it sometimes in 2014 when there is scarcity of wood shaving. It caused CRD for my bird. I noticed the dust is the causes of the CRD

Sharp does not have dusty quality

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Had tried it sometimes in 2014 when there is scarcity of wood shaving. It caused CRD for my bird. I noticed the dust is the causes of the CRD

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used it before. you need to change sand more frequently than wood shavings though. I observed coccidiosis in my 2nd batch, which responded to treatment so I had few fatalities . 1st batch was ok, no coccidiosis.