Straw Bedding in Nesting Boxes and coop?

[Bear4boo]

Anyone use this fine straw in your nesting boxes or coop? We want to try it in the boxes for the winter as I hear it’s a better insulator/warmer: it’s super soft and fine: does it work well in the coop? Right now we have pine shavings in both but am considering mixing them?

 

[nuthatched]

Star is my bedding and litter though the compressed bales areally cheaper and not so dusty.

 

[3KillerBs]

Any dry organic material can be used as bedding/litter in the chicken coop/run.

Different materials have different advantages and disadvantages. I like a mix of multiple materials, personally.

 

[BDutch]

I use straw with some hay on top of a layer of sand in the nest boxes during winter.
There is a sand floor in a small covered run where the chickens stay in the morning before the auto-pop door opens. When its cold and the snow doesn’t melt the chickens don’t go outside to the run or to the garden. Only then I will cover the sand floor with straw bc the sand gets cold when its freezing. And straw is a good isolation-material.