Chicken Feed For Litter

So I finally bought a back of egg layer crumbles to try for litter. It was about $9 for 50lb. Great price!! I know everyone keeps saying how wonderful it is but I can't help but thinking its to good to be true?? I really do hope it works up to expectations. With 3 cats in the house and in the future likely to be more, taking shortcuts will be very useful!! Not to mention that I just love saving money wherever I can!

Hey, my 50 pound bag cost 13.00! so far so good. I'm afraid the feed people will find out what we are using it for and double the price.

around here it varies from 7.50-11.50 for a fifty lb bag... no worries on doubleing the chn farmers would scream ( knock on wood) .... I have got in back in one box and the thrill of scooping again is great ...

They asked me if I wanted the cheaper one or the more expensive one? I said the cheaper one as I thought they might add minerals or other additives to the corn for the extra price. I'm not sure though. Does it effect scoopability that you know of?

no.. the difference is usually how finely milled it is and some add oil in ... I try to avoid the oil as it seems to attract things( an old ranch had who mgrs a store now said it was the grains though)...

So which is better? .

I read the cheap ones if it is a new brand ... but I try to buy layena since it is natural ... looked at organic OMMM the junk in that ...

layena here runs about 10.00, it is mid range

Hmm I don't remember what brand mine was.

Originally Posted by SolarityBengals

So I finally bought a back of egg layer crumbles to try for litter. It was about $9 for 50lb. Great price!! I know everyone keeps saying how wonderful it is but I can't help but thinking its to good to be true?? I really do hope it works up to expectations. With 3 cats in the house and in the future likely to be more, taking shortcuts will be very useful!! Not to mention that I just love saving money wherever I can!

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Please let me know how the chicken feed works for you. We got a new kitty and Jasmine was using feline pine butI didn't think Rudy liked that so I had a little WBCL left and I put that into his litter box. Turns out Jasmine has abandoned her box completely and strated using Rudy's box. I really don't want to keep buying WBCL ( I wasn't too impressed) but I wanted an alternative, so chicken feed sounds like it might work. Thanks!

Actually I love WBCL as that is what I'm currently using. It leaves the box so clean as the clumps come up so solid. I used feline pine for a while but didn't like it near as much. Another alternative to Feline Pine, price wise, is wood stove pellets. I haven't used it but hear its the exact same thing and really cheap.

I think its been about a month since I started using it. The only smal downsize is that they kick more out of the box-I have 4 cats and so far so good!!!

Hmmmm i wonder where i can find something like this, I dunno where a feed store is.

I think I might try it also, but I use tiday cat multiple cat and I have 1 cat Never a smell, but I am getting a pomaranian pup in a week who I will be litter training so am not sure...

Originally Posted by Southernlocs

Hmmmm i wonder where i can find something like this, I dunno where a feed store is.

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I think you can look them up in the phone book. My boss seems to know everything about anything so I asked him and sure enough he knew of a couple. One is right on my way home from work so its great. Still haven't gotten the bag out fo the back of the car yet . I'm afraid I won't have time tonight either!

My $13.00 bag was the layin, or egg crumble kind. The feed store guy (what a hunk) went through a lot of bags of different kinds, mine was on the bottom, so I don't know what the difference is. I just asked for what people here recommended. The texture looks exactly like clumping litter, except it is brown/tan instead of grey. the hunk said it is all natural, no antibiotics, I read the ingredients and didn't see anything offensive. I bought a flip lid plastic kitchen trash can, and scoop it out of that. The rest of the bag is in the basement in a big aluminum trash can with the bird seed and a brick on the lid so the mice stay out.

I just wanted to update!

I love this stuff! Its identical to World's Best as I've been told. I just need to find an easy way to keep it and scoop it. I might get one of those trash cans too. This bag is heavy! Its a bit of a pain having a big bag of chicken feed sitting in an already too small bathroom . I'll have to come up with something...

This is such an awesome money saver!!

Edit: It is flushable right? I mean its natural so bioegradable so I would assume flushable...

So you are using just regualr chicken food for litter?

Yep, well the "egg layer crumbles" so it clumps and everything. I love it! I just can't get over the cost reduction.

World's Best Cat Litter is $16.99 for 17lb. So $1 per lb.
Chicken feed is about $8.50 for 50lb. So thats $0.17 per lb.
So thats a savings of 83% if I did my math right .

hmmmm ill have to give it a shot, cheaper is nice

where do you purchase the wood pellets?