Official BYC Poll: What type of COOP bedding do you like best?

[Birdie mom]

Wow! I just saw something, who uses coffee grounds?

 

[thepick4uchicks]

PDZ is a mineral absorbant that keeps ammonia levels down. It is usually used in horse and other large livestock stalls but works great in the henhouse. Chicken poop is high in ammonia. This stuff is a small granular product that helps absorb some of the liquid and keeps the odor of ammonia down. I have a wood floor on a raised coop with linoleum for easy cleaning. I can scoop out all of the old poop and shavings, clean the linoleum, sprinkle PDZ, add fresh shavings, DE and some Spruce the Coop and the girls are set for about a month. If I add a poop board under the roost, I can go longer. I use a poop board during the fall / winter and empty it into the garden to age for the next spring.

I am for sure! Newbie and building first coop and run!

Wow thank you for all the information. That is how we plan to finish off the inside of our coop and what we plan to use for bedding and in the run also are the wood shavings. Thanks so much!

 

[Homesteadermomma6382]

I use pine shavings on the floor and hay in the nesting boxes. In winter I layer shavings and hay.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Wow! I just saw something, who uses coffee grounds?

Yeah who uses coffee grounds? Do the birds eat them?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Wow! I just saw something, who uses coffee grounds?

Yeah who uses coffee grounds? Do the birds eat them?

This person ⬇⬇ apparently does. I don’t know anything about it though. Seems to me like it would be expensive???

I just discovered coffee grounds and I'm hooked. Much better than sand, which I used to use, and smells great.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

This person ⬇⬇ apparently does. I don’t know anything about it though. Seems to me like it would be expensive???

It sounds like you would have to drink a whole lot of coffee to get enough grounds for an entire coop.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It sounds like you would have to drink a whole lot of coffee to get enough grounds for an entire coop.

I think some places sell them or give them away but I’m not sure

 

[R2elk]

I think some places sell them or give them away but I’m not sure

Starbucks gives their grounds away. People use them in their gardens.

 

[aart]

This person ⬇⬇ apparently does. I don’t know anything about it though. Seems to me like it would be expensive???

It sounds like you would have to drink a whole lot of coffee to get enough grounds for an entire coop.

I think some places sell them or give them away but I’m not sure

Look here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/coffee-ground-chicken-bedding.1370672/

...and here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/se..._than]=2020-04-02&c[title_only]=1&o=relevance

 

[rosemarythyme]

It sounds like you would have to drink a whole lot of coffee to get enough grounds for an entire coop.

There's a few of us wanting to buy it (yes it's a bagged product being marketed for animal use) but finding it seems to be the tough part.

Yes you could go to Starbucks and hope to get a big bag of used grounds but 1) I at least have a hard time actually finding a Starbucks bin that hasn't been stripped bare and 2) I'd need to figure out a way to dry them out, as coffee grounds can get moldy.