Thread: Kittie Litter

Was I pleased to see someone else uses something other than the recognised litters,we always went for the expensive clumping ones but when we went to six cats & all the trays that involves someone said why not try chick crumb & chick pellets,works well,doesn't smell & no grey paw pads all over the floor,makes one of the girls at work weep though,she keeps chickens & can't get round what feeds her lot ours s*** in.....
Our trays are really deep,originally they were the ones with hoods on but had to ditch lids do the fact that one naughty girl used that instead of going into tray but the fact they are so deep you can really fill them up & it makes it a lot easier to clean plus they don't manage to scratch so much over the sides,big bonus !

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Our trays are really deep,originally they were the ones with hoods on but had to ditch lids do the fact that one naughty girl used that instead of going into tray but the fact they are so deep you can really fill them up & it makes it a lot easier to clean plus they don't manage to scratch so much over the sides,big bonus !

Good point, well made - plus, by the time they've vaulted out of it, they've shaken quite a lot off their feet!

You are right, it is odd that our MC's use food for litter, but it's so much cheaper than Worlds Best and mine really likes it... I'm so embarrassed at Pets At Home when they ask at the counter if I keep chickens though - what do you say?? No, my cats like to crap in this stuff?? So my local branch all think I've got chickens now. I've even invented names for them just in case they ask!

Oh Karen thats a classic,I will giggle my way up the road to work now....
I was lucky because where I get my chicken food from the breeder who suggested it goes there & the people also knew that I had MC's so they just said "For the cats" I said yes & left a queue of people wondering !

Is the chick/duck crumb flushable? I was planning on using World's Best for that reason when I finally get my MC in a year or so.

@ Karen - the litter tray we're using is 50 x 40 x 42 cm in size and is the Marchioro Cat Toilet. Its quite deep and apart from schrodie keeping getting his paw wet we dont have a problem with it, he likes to have a good dig inside too.

I spoke to our local pet store and they dont stock chicken/duck feed, though he can order some in - £10.50 for 20kg - he was asking what we currently use for our chickens and i had to tell him it was to use as cat litter.. silence ensued for a moment then we had a bit of a chuckle. He mentioned Cat's Best Öko Plus cat litter to try out.

Originally Posted by Linzi

Is the chick/duck crumb flushable? I was planning on using World's Best for that reason when I finally get my MC in a year or so.

I think it's supposed to be but I wouldn't chance it, so that maybe a drawback.

Originally Posted by ayeizajedi

I spoke to our local pet store and they dont stock chicken/duck feed, though he can order some in - £10.50 for 20kg - he was asking what we currently use for our chickens and i had to tell him it was to use as cat litter.. silence ensued for a moment then we had a bit of a chuckle. He mentioned Cat's Best Öko Plus cat litter to try out.

Ah, welcome to my world. Now you know why I go prepared with chicken names... I'm a Sci-Fi geek, so at any given moment I can talk about my six chickens... Baltar, Apollo, Starbuck, Caprica 6, Boomer and "The Old Man",,,

On a more serious note, that seems like a damn good price for a 20kg bag of crumb. I get a 5kg bag of chick crumb from PAH and it's roughly £6, and I can get my hands on a 20kg bag of duck and goose crumb for £15.

My breeder friend who uses it always flushes it down the loo ,being tight & on a water meter mine is bagged & binned....
At the moment we can get 20kgs of pellets for 6.95 & 20kg of crumb hubby thinks is around 7.80 so makes up a fair few trays at a good price.