Wood shavings or News Paper?

eggbert420 said:

I like newspapers for the first couple of days until they are stable on their feet. Wood shavings after that.

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Hybridchucks said:

Wood chips i recommend! xx 

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birdwrangler057 said:

Alrighty, Thanks!

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PD-Riverman said:

LOL. See I told you!!! I am glad everyone does it their way---everyone has their opinion. The little bit of flake dust the chicks peck/eat does not hurt them---like us kids eating dirt---LOL. If the flake/shavings hurt them----I would be in trouble because at times I have had 100's at one time in the over-flow brooders(after my wire floor brooders are filled) and I rarely loose a chick. Imagine the deaths I could have if it was a problem.  Not that my way is better than anyone else's way---My way works good for me. I personally do not like paper towels or news paper because the chicks just step into the poop instead of it getting mixed into the bedding, but if you only got one brooder---you can keep changing it---no problem. Being I have no problems with the flake shavings with straight out the incubator chicks and have run as many as 25 brooders at one time----I am good. I do not have time to change out all the news paper or paper towels-----but feel free to use them if you want. Everyone do what they feel good about!! Happy, healthy chicks to all of us!!

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cowgrl644 said:

Probably a fluke thing, but I use large flake shavings. We lost a chick tonight. She choked on a shaving. I found her on her back, feet in the air. Small shaving wedged in her mouth. I managed to get it out, but she has been downhill in the last hour since and won't make the night unless something drasticly changes. Paper towels are probably a lot safer. She was our only egg to hatch, and my daughter is going to be heartbroken.

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