The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Azzdodd on September 09, 2013, 12:35:23 pm
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My girls have a garden shed an I put wood shavings on the floor and in the boxes straw...last week I ran out of straw so had to put sawdust in there....they seem to be great? Alot cleaner girls made a nice nest in them?
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Handful of sawdust and clean straw on top.
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Handful of sawdust and clean straw on top.
Me too
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just sawdust .... good thick layer
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deep sawdust here :thumbsup:
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easibed.
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That's good to know :-) just seems so much cleaner and easy to clean out!
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Dengie Fresh Bed or Hemcore - whatever I'm using on the floor :)
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Wood shavings throughout the coop. I use the smaller shavings though, not the large ones you get for horse bedding. The small ones go further / last longer.
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Just started using Hemcore :thumbsup:
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Hemcore/Aubiose, lovely stuff and keeps the eggs dry not mucky and smells nice. Rots down much quicker and better than shavings/sawdust.
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Handful of sawdust and clean straw on top.
Me too
And me :chook:
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Either sawdust or Fresh Bed, depending on what I have.
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Always used wood shavings small size never used anything else but would not say no to trying some of the stuff mentioned, what kind of price are we talking about.
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easibed (the horse stuff) costs me £8 a bag and lasts at least a month for two largish houses with 7 in each and two smaller ones with 3 birds in each. I put it in the laying boxes plus a bit on the floor of the house. It dries up poop, doesn't fly everywhere, smells quite nice and they like to scratch around in it. I don't use with the horses funnily enough as its heavy to lift when very wet-although I did use it with some success in a stable used as a field shelter.
I preferred the easibed to shavings for the chickens-less dusty too. Have also tried cardboard which was OK but flew round the garden a bit and worked out more expensive. When I move I'm going to use sharp sand in the bottom of the houses, easibed in the laying boxes.
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Aubioseand Hemcors about £12 a bale but lasts ages and ages and it doesn't stick to anything like clothes and dries out the poo mega quick. I use it for the horses too and it works out cheaper than shavings for me cos its so much better bed. Use 2 bales a week for 2 stabled horses plus any needed for the chickens.
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£7-£8 a bale for small shavings. Lasts me about a year for 6 chickens.
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cardboard under straw. The card to buffer any falls and to help me see any evidence of breakages in the chooks' house. In the duckhouse to absorb the moisture a bit better... ::) :&>