Cedar Wood Chip Mix in Run?

[Dreammaker]

Would you use a mix of cedar and other types of wood chips in a medium-sized (96sqft) run? I don't know the exact source (it's free through DPW), but they have a faint cedar smell.

 

[Percheron chick]

I wouldn't worry about it. For the most part the chips have mostly off gassed the irritating compounds. It is also outside so there isn't a build up of fumes. It will continue to dry and have less smell.

 

[Dreammaker]

I wouldn't worry about it. For the most part the chips have mostly off gassed the irritating compounds. It is also outside so there isn't a build up of fumes. It will continue to dry and have less smell.

Thank you! I posed the same question on a FB group and was met with an emphatic "NO" from respondents. I feel like you're onto something re: off-gassing. I was surprised that so many people considered it so dangerous. Cedar shavings in a brooder, small coop, or nesting boses make sense (small space + finer particles of highly aromatic wood). This would be probably a mix of pine, oak, and maybe a small amount of cedar. I'm in MA and I don't think we really have much cedar to begin with for DPW to be chipping.

 

[Percheron chick]

Everyone is an expert on FB
Let your nose be the judge.
I agree with the reasoning for inside but not outside.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Rather than retype all my thoughts, here's some stuff in the past I've said about cedar. I have cedar chips in my coop and run, and my brooder is made of cedar:

- https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/using-cedar-wood-chips-in-the-run.1308504/#post-21327963
- https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-new-coop.1344450/page-3#post-22090342
- https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-for-clean-coop.1374861/page-8#post-22708486

 

[Dreammaker]

Rather than retype all my thoughts, here's some stuff in the past I've said about cedar. I have cedar chips in my coop and run, and my brooder is made of cedar:

- https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/using-cedar-wood-chips-in-the-run.1308504/#post-21327963
- https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-new-coop.1344450/page-3#post-22090342
- https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-for-clean-coop.1374861/page-8#post-22708486

Excellent! Thanks for your insight.