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post #1 of 28
5/17/09 at 2:57pm
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i was doing the newspaper thing for about a week --- i got tired of cleaning it every day --- so i went and got some pine shavings to cover the bottom of the brooder

they are eating it ... will they be fine?

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post #2 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:00pm

mine are eating cedar shavings, I asked the same thing, so not sure yet...

2 Great Pyr LGD's, 2 cats, 1 BLRW banty chick, 1 silver sebright chick, 1 blue silkie, 4 EE/blk Orph chicks, 5 cucko Marans hens, 1 EE hen, 30 goats, 2 AQHA mares.
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2 Great Pyr LGD's, 2 cats, 1 BLRW banty chick, 1 silver sebright chick, 1 blue silkie, 4 EE/blk Orph chicks, 5 cucko Marans hens, 1 EE hen, 30 goats, 2 AQHA mares.
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post #3 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:07pm

Pine shavings are not toxic but Cedar shavings are toxic to them

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post #4 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:10pm
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Originally Posted by cariboujaguar 

mine are eating cedar shavings, I asked the same thing, so not sure yet...


Cedar shavings are toxic for them! Remove it from them!

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post #5 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:13pm

I usually line the brooder with PINE shavings and many layers of paper towels on top. Then I remove a layer of paper towels each day, and by the time the last layer is gone they know where the real food is. About a week.

Cedar shavings emit aromatics that can be toxic to chicks- don't use them, too risky.

Don't get all your exercise leaping to conclusions!

Poultry- they may be your pets, they may be your hobby, they may be your livestock. But remember, if you fall down in the pen, unconscious? They WILL eat you.
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Don't get all your exercise leaping to conclusions!

Poultry- they may be your pets, they may be your hobby, they may be your livestock. But remember, if you fall down in the pen, unconscious? They WILL eat you.
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post #6 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:20pm

Use the small animal pine shavings. My chicks always seem  to eat the shavings in the beginning. Then they find the real food and the bowl and the waterer. I have lost one chick due to this. You would think they would figure it out quickly, but NOOO.

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Guinea Info:   http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=1044B438EE7556BB

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post #7 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:21pm

I thin kthey eat every thing in the beginning.  Pine is ok though, cedar a big no no!!!

Craptastic.
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post #8 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:22pm

Oh boy...who ever has the cedar shavings should remove it asap or you will have some dead chickens very soon sad   
Mine all ate LOTS of pine shavings and they are all still ok today big_smile  It won't hurt them.

Have had chickens for a whole six years now!  This year decided to try out ducks too!  WOW messy they are, but totally worth it, their cuteness overpowers all the messes they can make :D  Check them out at:  autumnbreezechickens.blogspot.com

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Have had chickens for a whole six years now!  This year decided to try out ducks too!  WOW messy they are, but totally worth it, their cuteness overpowers all the messes they can make :D  Check them out at:  autumnbreezechickens.blogspot.com

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post #9 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:31pm

yes, I've been PMed and told on another thread. I had no idea and have been all over this site for months, if it's not stickied somewhere it should be... lucky for me they've been on it for a week and everyone seems fine... hope they stay that way/ THEY ARE IN HAY NOW! thanks SSSOOO much for the quick response guys! I'll have to name one of them cedar LOL

2 Great Pyr LGD's, 2 cats, 1 BLRW banty chick, 1 silver sebright chick, 1 blue silkie, 4 EE/blk Orph chicks, 5 cucko Marans hens, 1 EE hen, 30 goats, 2 AQHA mares.
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2 Great Pyr LGD's, 2 cats, 1 BLRW banty chick, 1 silver sebright chick, 1 blue silkie, 4 EE/blk Orph chicks, 5 cucko Marans hens, 1 EE hen, 30 goats, 2 AQHA mares.
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post #10 of 28
5/17/09 at 3:43pm

Are you actually seeing them pick up the shavings AND swallow or just pick them up?  Mine picked up the shavings sure, but they spit them back out.
Chicks pick up everything in their beaks.  That's how they figure out what's food and what's not.  Just like human babies, everything has to be taste tested first.

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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever - Winnie the Pooh
I'll never develop a thick skin.  Thick skin leads to a hard heart and I never want to be one of those people. 

A slave to LF brahmas, seramas, runner ducks, call ducks, two geese that are my feathered children, and a crossbeak silkie X named Dragon. 

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