Hi, I use laying hen pellets (chicken feed) in the litter boxes for my bottle babies. I learned about it from orphan kittens list @ yahoo.com a few years ago. The poster suggested using the laying hen crumble, but I found that the pellets work better for me. They look sort of like yesterday's news or feline pine, but smell like grain and are yellow in color. The cost here is about $15 for a 50 pound bag and you can flush or compost it (remove the solids (poops) first). It doesn't clump hard, but it does cling together enough to get a scoop under. My adults and older kittens prefer regular clumping litter, but for the babies just learning to use the litter box it is just purrfect! If they eat a bit of it accidentally, it's no big deal! You can easily pick up stray pellets and it isn't very dusty. I recycle my Tidycat pails to store it. The lids have good seals so any moths aren't able to get out. A 50# bag just about fills 2 of the biggest (35-38#) yellow Tidycat pails. Georgetta in Ventura, CA _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
