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Tidy cat kitty litter
By: Arrowslinger Date: July 18, 2013, 5:56 am
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The mid section of South Carolina has been dumped on with rain
for two months and where I live it is heavily wooded. Needless
to say the forest has been damp and seems to never dry out, my
kit loft/two pair breeding loft was being affected.
Two sections I have a pair each breeding in the last section my
first six young with others added as they come off the nest.
Breeders are fed pigeon pellets and the young kit gets grain
only all are fed in a way to minimize waste, the young only get
what they can clean up and the breeders are fed from gallon milk
jugs with a pigeon head size holes cut in them.
The clean out trays are about three inches from the welded wire
floor and each tray is 3/4 inch deep with tile linoleum as the
bottom surface. With all the rain it takes about two weeks and I
have to remove the trays and hose them down, the loose droppings
from pellets also do not help.
A few weeks ago my girl friend commented on how nice and dry our
kittys litter box stays and the light bulb went off. Now mind
you because the litter is scented and looks like grit I probably
would not just scatter it on a bare loft floor, but they can not
touch it under the wire.
I have found a layer just covering the bottom of trays soaks up
the dampness and spreads out even as it gets more damp. Then as
it soaks it it becomes dry and grainy seems to be my perfect
solution and has another fantastic benefit. The gnats,
mosquitoes and flies seem to hate the pleasant scent of the
litter, before I could see pests buzzing around the young and
their droppings. Now I rarely see any bugs around the young at
all and also the entire loft gives the back yard a pleasant
aroma ;) [font=Verdana] [/font]
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Re: Tidy cat kitty litter
By: windjammer loft Date: July 18, 2013, 8:11 am
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Sounds like YOU found a good solution for the moisture
problem... In all my years I have never tried Kitty Litter... I
just might have to give that a try...
2 weeks ago here in Ohio we were getting so much rain I thought
I might have to built an Ark.....hahaha
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Re: Tidy cat kitty litter
By: nephilim Date: July 19, 2013, 7:03 am
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Hey all.
Is this cat litter the tiny granules? Looks a
little like the stuff in the red grit pots made by Versage laga
and others? It's known over here as fullers earth cat litter.
This stuff is collected from mud flats in the Phillipines and
other places like the other polynisean islands and is full of
minedrals and other good stuff such as crushed seaweed which has
spirulia in and is used a lot by the racing pigeon guys. It also
has black minerals in ,again very beneficial to the birds. So
don't be suprised if they are picking it over. Anyone who keeps
Malawi cichilids or like me keep a marine reef tank. Know this
cat litter as Miricle mud or other branded mud based substrate,
and we all know how beneficial it is to our aquariums. HtH.
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Re: Tidy cat kitty litter
By: Arrowslinger Date: July 19, 2013, 7:51 am
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HTML http://www.pet360.com/productimages/3063957_lg.jpg
You can see the granules in this image
Ingredients are 90 percent betonite which is used in a lot of
soaps and shampoos so I would not scatter it about a floor where
the birds could get at it.
Hartz does make a unscented clay litter that looks to be
basically the stuff you throw on garage floors to soak up oils.
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Re: Tidy cat kitty litter
By: Tony Chavarria Date: July 19, 2013, 10:30 am
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So basically if it has color granules or smells pretty do not
put it in the loft! ;D I have used clay kitty litter granules
before, while it can get dusty, it does keep things dry. I will
put some in a couple nests and see how it works. Good
suggestion, thanks all! ;)
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