Ground corn husks

[Katy]

I use puppy pee pads in the bottom of my brooders.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

That's a good idea too. Puppy pee-pads that is.
I'm more of a recycling type person. Use something over and over again ya know? So the shelf liners will work great for me since you can wash them and reuse them. (I've got clothes still that I have maintained for 10 years or more and still wear lol). They also seem to provide a way to get the chicks off the floor. The brooder I'm setting up is acctually a small shed with a concrete floor that I put a solid peice of bathroom tile-type panel over. When we built our new building I decided to use the old shed as a brooding building. So I got the light set up now, just ordered 35 square feet of pink shelf liner and now all I need is the chicks and feed. ( I don't buy feed till I get the chicks right? So it stays fresh longer. )

 

[walkswithdog]

Strawberry I'm a reuse person myself. LOL I'm having daughter knit incubator liners and humidity pads for the incubator so I can use and reuse something organic that I can clean.

I got to thinking that the shelf liner in my bator is a soft plastic under constant heat in small environment. It never pays to think... and I bet the dang thing degasses at least a little. next to tiny itty bitty little forming lungs.

So next hatch or when I candle these, depending when they get here. I'm switching the sponges for washable wool cloths and when I hatch they'll be hatching on a pretty sun yellow pad of cotton and linen. That I can then bleach dry and reuse

I'm all over it.

She's doing most of the first pads out of scrap, if it goes well, we'll go to some nice new ones in colors I like. It will go a long way to making the UglyBator (homemade and metal) a bit nicer.

I like reduce, reuse, recycle.