What Bedding Material are you using on the Floor?

[Tim]

Hi all,

I am writing about poultry bedding at the moment (floors not nest boxes) and would like to know what sort of bedding people are using.

Please do not include chicks, growers etc - just fully grown chickens.

Please can you vote below and if you select other, please leave a reply to this post and tell me what you are using...

Thanks very much!

Tim.

 

[kelloggs]

I use hemcore, it smells nice, it doesn't get kicked around so much, its absorbent and easier to poop pick in the mornings :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

I use nothing but Easibed (Wood Chippings) for my chicks/growers and all my adult birds chickens, Quails & including my new ducks i find it very clean & easy to use & it never seems to blow about like shavings does. Tim how do i vote as wood chippings as it's not like wood shavings ?

 

[Anonymous]

hi tim. i use milled straw as i find it more absorbent and easier to clean out as a result. i find it especially good where the ducks are concerned .i didn't know if i should tick the box for straw because being milled it seems a different product and more funcional [to my needs anyway] cara

 

[Mez]

I'm another hemcore fan, so ticked other

 

[kitty]

I just use flat sheets of old newspaper to cover the tray, and then 3/4 times a week roll them up and drop it into the compost bin, it's easy, quick, cheap and environmentally friendly.

 

[Tim]

I use nothing but Easibed (Wood Chippings) for my chicks/growers and all my adult birds chickens, Quails & including my new ducks i find it very clean & easy to use & it never seems to blow about like shavings does. Tim how do i vote as wood chippings as it's not like wood shavings ?

Please vote 'other' Wraith

It's interesting, I really thought nearly everyone would be using wood shavings but there's quite a bit of variation already.

 

[victorias poultry]

I use soft wood shavings in the houses, which the girls love to scratch back out of the henhouse :evil:

 

[foxy]

I use a combination, I like Rapport, lovely and soft, composts very quickly, also finely chopped straw for the ducks, I just take a top layer of turn, and add some fresh.

I also like easibed, and find it useful in the winter as a base layer for the ducks, then add a thick layer of straw in top.

Any bedding that is absorbent, dry and does not create dust gets my vote though, as well as being quickly composting

 

[Amy]

Hi Tim

After trying everything including Hay, Straw, Woodshavings etc. I have now settled on a wood chip bedding. It is easy to poop pick and absorbs moisture. It is dust free which is what my chucks need as they are prone to sneezing and dont on the wood chip. Even dust extracted woodshavings irritate them where as the woodchip is fine.
Personally I find it rough to the touch and always keep my eye out for alternatives but the chickens dont seem to mind.
In my duck run, I use dust extracted wood shavings as it is softer on their little feet.
x

 

[Anonymous]

shavings i use

 

[Chuck]

Wood shavings on floor and nest boxes though sometimes use hay in nests.

Have tried just about everything else over the years but always come back to shavings

 

[Anonymous]

i use straw on top of shavings so that when i clean the house the droppings dont stick to the floor.

 

[Anonymous]

Too late to vote in the poll but I use a mix of shredded/chopped straw & wood shavings on top of a couple of layers of newspaper (makes it easier to pull the whole lot out when I do the big weekly clean). My 11 year old daughter uses the same in her Silkie house, but has some vinyl/lino on the floor instead of newspaper - even easier as she slides out the vinyl, tips the bedding on the compost heap, hoses down the vinyl & job done.