Can you use shredded paper in your run to dry things up or in your coop as some bedding like put that down first the the pine shavings on top?? I am new to raising chickens so not sure if this would be ok to do.
yea we tryed putting news paper in the coop/run. it dident work for us. way to messy, it landed all over our yard.
I get shredded paper free at work, so I put it inside my coop. I put a good layer of paper down, then lots of shavings on top of it, then a little straw on top of that as straw is free also from my grain. The chickens love digging through the straw looking for left over grain. I throw down a bit of bread or whole grain every day so the chickens keep it fluffed and mixed. I just have dirt and put down a bit of straw in the run for the winter, in the summer mine free range so I leave the run natural dirt.
I have it under my roosts and it does not seem to get everywhere. I would not use it to absorb water though. It compacts down too much. I get it free as well so by the time it is mixed in with lots of chook poop it makes a great free addition to my compost.
I put all of our junk mail in the shredder and fill the nest boxes only with it. The rest of the coop has sand- much easier to clean. My one hen insists on sleeping (and pooping) in a nest box so the paper clumps and sticks to the poop and is easy enough to yank out and replace.
