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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    There's so much to unpack here... I don't even know where to start.... Therefore, if you genuinely believe you in are the right, have at it, but please don't recommend pine to people. I also recommend in about a half hour, to come back to this thread, and read the science, then you'll be cooled...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    Aspen chips, hemp chips (If higher quality, some are WAY better than others) I'm not sure what others you can get in chip form honestly, I just use sand nowadays.
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    ....What? Do you even know what you're talking about anymore??? For commercial chickens, yes, but they also don't get the best care, if you are a hobby person, and your chickens are only living till 7-8, there's a problem. With good care, rabbits live till 12-14 years, chickens live 11-13. The...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    I do, everyday, you people are under the impression "If I can't see it, it's not a problem" then wonder why you get crop impactions, pine shavings have SO many things going against them, the cons FAR outweigh the pros. I get it if YOU don't want to change your ways, but please don't tell other...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    Is this the ONLY thing you have to say? You have nothing to back it up unless it's "Well this person and these people use it, so it must be fine" As someone who is in the horse industry, once again, most aren't in pine shaving enough, or are adopted out and sent to retirement before the pine...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    All pine is toxic. Potgieter and Wilke (1993) have noted that “the presence of natural organic substances, such as α- and β-pinene, champhene, limonene, terpinolene, myrcene, β-phelandrene, resin acids (pimaric, sandaracopimaric, palustric, levopimaric, isopimaric, abietic, dehydroabietic...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    I really wish this one were true, but it’s just not. Yes, more ventilation is better than less ventilation, but your chickens are still going to be exposed to millions or billions of tiny pine and dust particles. The particles don’t just magically get sucked out of the coop with good...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    The chickens don't live long enough to see the effects, pine shaving don't directly kill a chicken, but it can in other ways, by causing cancer in the lungs, impacting the digestive system and causing crop impactions, and cell damage. How about instead of trying to hold up this myth, you...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    Right, the commercial farmers for sure put the chickens first, which is why the average lifespan is 5 for commercial chickens. 🙄 Most commercial farmers use metal "bedding" or straw anyways. Also, if I had a nickel for every time stores have sold something dangerous for animals id have thousands...
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    There's been so many studies that have shown pine to be toxic to chickens, though? Most aren't even from sellers, I'm not sure what you're on about.
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    "Free ranging"

    Lock them in the coop for a couple days, there seems to be a point around the age of 1 1/2-2 that chickens just 'find' a new home, so move them there, put the food and water into the coop itself, and lock it for a couple of nights, make sure to put enrichment toys in there aswell
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    Are all wood chips safe for a chicken run?

    It depends on the wood for sure, stay away from Cedar (toxic) and Pine (toxic), I'd recommend aspen shavings/chips, but beware that theres different quality aspen and some have tons of chemicals. If you use peat moss (not really wood) change it very reguarly, "silent mold" is extremely common if...
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    New Here

    Thank you all.))
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    New Here

    Hello! I'm new here, a breeder friend of mine had informed me this site existed when we were investigating a certain chick mill. I am very passionate about the Onagadori breed, but do know quite a bit about other longtailed fowl, and believe not everyone should be able to own any breed (Like the...
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    Feather lover farms

    People in the Onagadori world were talking about them, and how they claim to breed Onagadoris, but breed mixes, so I checked them out, def mixes, not top or "Show quality" like they claim, was offput by the lack of tail and saddle feathers, horrible feet, pretty skinny for an onagadori, and on...
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