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[HENthusiastic]

Hi guys.

My friends have an open fire which they burn coal and would in. Wood ( ) the ash from the combined coal and would be okay for the girls dustbath? I've heard people say that wud ash is ok but dont know about coal?

[mostin]

You crack me up , don't know the answer to your question though, sorry

[MadMitch]

If we have a bonfire the girls love it. It sometime hard to stopping them going in before its cooled though

[Cinnamon]

Wooden know.

 

Sorry, couldn't resist

[Redwing]

I must admit I use the combined ash mixed with compost for the dustbath although I try to use the ash from days where we have used mostly wood for the fire because I don't think its strictly ok to use coal ash but I can't remember where I read that......

[HENthusiastic]

Mostin: fat lot of help you are

 

Madmitch: blimy; that sounds scary!

 

Cinnamon: love it!

 

Redwing: Thanks you for the sensible reply in the midst of all this sillyness

Wonder why coal ash isn't okay??

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I've a feeling (rustled from a dim & distant memory imparted by Christian I think) that coal ash is acidic (?), but ok in small amounts.

Wood/wud ash would be ok though. I mix either type with some soil from the garden or compost when it's dry enough, they love it!!

 

Sadly we don't have a wood burner as our chimney is too dodgy to have one, we only have a gas stove , so we rely on donations from neighbours & parents

 

Sha x

[Old Speckled Hen]

Coal ash is bad for the garden as it contains a lot of sulphur products making it acidic.

If you burn largely wood with some coal this is perfectly OK for the chooks.

I clean the fire every morning and put the ashes through a garden sieve straight into the hens' dust bath. They love it. It's quite a sight when they emerge, shaking a plume of ash into the air.

They have been bathing in ash from the fire for a year now and are perfectly OK.

[Plum]

HEN

 

Surprised Yew wood think Redwood was giving a Poplar answer and gave a Fig. I twigged that Yew Pine for a Plane answer knot to Spruce up your Horse chestnut but the Cherry of your eye. Yew Pine for a Box full of Ash.

 

Plum x

[Redwing]

Plum! thats great, have you been working on that?

 

I think it was Christian that warned me about the coal ash too, and as Christian taught me everything I know about chickens I decree that he is correct

[Plum]

Didn't know about you and Christian.

[HENthusiastic]

PLUM

Thats fantastic love it!

[Redwing]

Didn't know about you and Christian.

 

OH and I went on one of Christian's chicken keeping courses and managed to accidently rob him of several hours of his precious day off