I agree, plus, it would wind up being more costly. $1 per pad x say 4 hen boxes, for us they'd be dirty in a week. You could maybe brush some poo off, but then here we go with me and my plastic ones that I didn't like for that very reason -- pain in the butt!
The brooder pads I'm thinking of are like heating pads and are hand washable. Is this that or something different?
Nesting pads are some 12" x 12" plastic yellow things I bought and tried and gave up using and just went with horse bedding pellets in their nests for less maintenance. Some of...