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

[Chuckie chicken]

I just happen to be outside now. Here's a picture of the batch currently drying in my little trailer. If the sun ever appears again it will dry much quicker.

The next pic is obviously in the coop. I added some pine shavings to the first batch because I wasn't sure if I'd have enough coffee husks by the time the girls arrived, and I'm a bit anal about being prepared. From here on in, I'll just add coffee husks. The grasses strewn about are from ornamentals that we trimmed this spring and used in the nesting boxes. That's all on the girls.

Come fall I'm looking forward to adding leaves since we have tons!

 

[Waightbrandy81]

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Hi everyone!

Please answer the poll for your what you use in your coop...not run or brooder.


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Im very new,, my sister offered me pine shavings from her lumber mill.. is this the right choice.. I tend to see a lot of shavings comments, but not what wood it is

 

[Chuckie chicken]

Im very new,, my sister offered me pine shavings from her lumber mill.. is this the right choice.. I tend to see a lot of shavings comments, but not what wood it is

Pine is good. Stay away from cedar, it's toxic to chickens.

 

[3KillerBs]

Im very new,, my sister offered me pine shavings from her lumber mill.. is this the right choice.. I tend to see a lot of shavings comments, but not what wood it is

Pine shavings are great. Just make sure that they're dry.

 

[Drumstick63]

Wood shavings with a good dusting of PDZ mixed in.

What is PDZ ?

 

[aart]

What is PDZ ?

https://sweetpdz.com/

 

[extrailrider]

Wood shavings with a good dusting of PDZ mixed in.

Please could you tell me what PDZ is and it's purpose. Thanks.

 

[aart]

Please could you tell me what PDZ is and it's purpose. Thanks.

It is the mineral zeolite, it absorbs ammonia.

https://sweetpdz.com/

 

[Buzzard Hill Chickens]

We run nothing but straight PDZ in the floor of our coop. It clumps the poop sort of like kitty litter does, but not quite as well. The good thing is that it makes daily morning cleanup a breeze, and it keeps down any ammonia smell and we have no flies or bugs anywhere near the coop. Our coop is 6 ft by 3 ft, and two bags of PDZ makes about a 2" to 3" covering. It may be a little expensive at that rate, but the two bags will last us about 3 months if the coop floor is cleaned out daily.

 

[canne50]

I use deep litter in winter of Timothy grass.
It smells good, they like picking through it, and it is dry enough added with our desert climate, there is very little “fowl” odor!