Nesting box

[cc chickens]

What would be the best to use in a nesting box, hey (straw) or pine shavings? Mybhens are about 13 weeks old.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

What would be the best to use in a nesting box, hey (straw) or pine shavings? Mybhens are about 13 weeks old.

You can do both.but.hey is better.cause when a hen lays a egg,when it first comes out it is wet,and the shaving will get it dirty,so hey is better.

 

[Gray Farms]

I prefer shavings.

 

[cc chickens]

Everybody is diffrent, I may do a 50/50 mix of the shavings & hay. Thanks Cluckcluck1215 & Gray Farms

 

[HillbillyFab]

I use straw, because we always have some on the place. My girls wouldn't know how to act in anything but.

 

[cc chickens]

Its been horribly dry & oh so very hot here in Ne Al, hay has gotten a lil scarce due to the droubt. Other than hay or shavings is there anything else that would be good to use?

 

[ChickenMammX4]

We use sweet Timothy hay. I buy the hay packaged for small animals at Meijer. It's already cut to a perfect size to fit nicely in the nesting boxes.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Everybody is diffrent, I may do a 50/50 mix of the shavings & hay. Thanks Cluckcluck1215 & Gray Farms

Its been horribly dry & oh so very hot here in Ne Al, hay has gotten a lil scarce due to the droubt. Other than hay or shavings is there anything else that would be good to use?

No,I do not think there is.

 

[cc chickens]

Thanks

 

[aart]

I like a good tight flake of straw, shoved down into nest box and 'bowled' out a bit......
.......it stays together better so not scratched out, or dug thru to hard bottom, of nest box.