IS IT OK IF MY PULLETS EAT THEIR PINE SHAVINGS BEDDING?

As long as they have access to grit, I bet they are fine. Most mine just peck out who knows what from the shavings and don't actually swallow them.

 

Yeah I've notice that. They peck around in the new shavings but they don't swallow.

 

I housed three 8 week old guinea fowl in the nursery. One day I put in some new (large flake) pine shaving on the floor for warmth.
One of them started eating the chips. I thought for sure that this bird would be found dead sometime soon. There was a post on this website that showed a necropsy with a chicken that had a crop full of pine shavings that did in fact die.

I gave the guinea fowl away as I had promised I would in exchange for a different colored lot of guineas.

I informed the new owners of the problem and just tonight I got back to them. The three guineas are doing just great had intigrated into their established flock of guineas.

So, you should be fine. I was astonished that they actually do this and it does not hurt them !!

 

Chickens are so dumb! Every time I change the pine bedding in my hover, the chicks go nuts taking the sawdust equivalent of a dust bath and then scratching until they bury the feeders and waterers. For at least the first couple of days after the change, Iʻm out there cleaning out their feeders, etc. or pine shaving will be all they will get to eat!

 

Quote:Not dumb. Rather, simply what they felt like doing!.
JJ