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Here's a thread I started a few days ago with some biochar experiments I've been doing. To date I've played with mostly wood as an input, but as you'll read I've branched out.

The chunks in the picture are purpose-made in the hotel pan in the fire pit, but the left over black bits in the fire pit are the same thing. I do crush the biochar somewhat to increase surface area and make it mix in with the shavings better. My low-tech solution? I put it in an old 5-gallon...

A fresh batch of biochar I made a couple weeks ago.

Wood ash is the remnants of a fire after it's been burned down. It's typically white or light gray in color. It's great in the garden, and if the fire was with clean wood, good for chicken dust baths. Biochar is charcoal, so that's the light, dark black bits of not fully burned material...

In simplest terms, it's charcoal. It's been used for centuries to absorb odors, toxins, etc. If a chicken happened to nibble at it a bit, it's actually arguably good for them. You could just by lump charcoal and break it up, or it can be made in small batches in a wood stove or outdoor fire...

Interested to hear people's thoughts...as the OP mentioned, it's a topic where there are lots of opinions but not a lot of first hand experience out there. I'd be interested to hear if people purchase coffee bedding or reuse their own coffee grinds, get them from coffee shops, etc. When I have...