[sheridan]

Hi all,
I have moved my 3 ladies into their late Spring/Summer accommodation (9ftX9ft of gravel on a sand/subsoil hardcore base) to save my veg and fruit crops, not to mention lawn. I know they are fine really (even leaving aside the pitiful faces staring at the raised beds and squawking), but I do wonder about their dust baths now they can't get to the big pit they dug under my fruit bushes. I have posession of some large tyres, and I want to fill them for dust baths, any ideas on a good mix? A few weeks in to the pen/prison they have dug good bowls for themselves of the sand/subsoil, but I don't know if this is enough? No sign of mites or owt. Does anyone else do the tyre thing?

[krystal]

i have done it my girls love it 

[terri]

im planning on putting one in my run with sand soil and some mite powder in

[joyfull]

if anybody wants any old lorry tyres to use for this idea then we have some you can have free (so long as you can collect from Lincolnshire  )

[sheridan]

Ooh, mite powder, that's a good idea! What do you use?

[terri]

its just red mite duting powder ,i usually sprinkle it in the shavings in the coop and where they take dust baths

[joyfull]

you could use DE.