Michigan

[chicken grandma]

Olive - no he did not say what type of lights were used at all. Just that I should be very careful when choosing a light for animals.
I did just google teflon and florescent lights and some florescent lights do advertise a safety coating of teflon.
Maybe Nova can google if she can find some writing on the bulb.

 

[Olive Hill]

Yeah, I'm definitely not questioning if there are coated fluorescents. For shop lights and the like coated fluorescents are handy, but just if you (or anyone) had actually heard of a case where fluorescents had caused a problem. Just doesn't seem to me like they get hot enough... of course no one would want to be the guinea pig to try that out either, so better safe than sorry I suppose.

 

[chicken grandma]

When I went to get my 250W red heat lamp for my chicks to take into the coop with them, I read the box from every angle! It did say SHATTERPROOF but it was from the feed store and the box did not say teflon on it. Our vet said that the boxes that held the bulbs used at the zoo did say teflon but in very very small print. Sorry, I did not think to ask what type of bulbs they were but probably best that we check all our bulbs that might be used in a closed area with the chickens.

 

[dianaross77]

Does anyone know where I can get pine straw? All the duck people swear by the stuff but I have no idea where to get it.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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I had a ton of it in my driveway and yard last week

I remember it being readily avaliable more in the south. [GA]

 

[chicken grandma]

Is it less dusty than pine shavings? I am looking for something less dusty for my coop.

 

[dianaross77]

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I had a ton of it in my driveway and yard last week

I remember it being readily avaliable more in the south. [GA]

Oh sure... now you tell me.

I will call around tomorrow to the landscape supply places. I'm thinking I'll just end up using regular straw. Right now I'm using hay but it's kind of expensive toilet paper for ducks!

Chicken Grandma, it's pine needles. I would imagine it would be less dusty than shavings. I use pine pellets in the chicken coop right now and I like them a lot but they aren't very cuddly.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Landscape supply... good idea!

Seems like I remember that pine straw wasn't dusty at all but then again my memory isn't the greatest.

 

[RaZ]

http://distinctivepine.com/

Closest source that I've found. They are in Temperance (near Toledo).

 

[teeville5]

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Woo hoo! And it was the day I guessed, too!

Don't you just love getting a new egg from one of the girls? I got a new one today, too. My DD brought in the eggs the evening and there was a greenish/greyish one. Looks like my EE has decided to join the layers.