Brooder box for new babies

[Sisters Farms]

im getting a coupe of baby chicks this week. They will be a week old. I use pine shavings in my main coop. Should I use pine shavings for their brooder box? I will have the border box inside my house until they get older

 

[Pyxis]

I use pine for my chicks with no problems. Cedar should be avoided entirely, but pine is okay.

 

[mminer13]

I've used pine shavings with my chicks with no issues. I buys the cheapest shavings from our local feed store and the shavings are pretty large, bigger than what I remember using when we had hamsters as kids, so I'm not too worried about a chick eating it.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I also use pine shavings, with no problems.

 

[cmlew99]

I used pine shavings with my chicks this year, but for the firs few days I had newspaper covered with paper towels (to avoid splayed legs). This was so they didn't eat the pine shavings. Then, after a day or two I added in the pine shavings.

 

[cmlew99]

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