Switching from paper towels to pine shavings

[GermanChick]

I had mine for two days on paper towels (with pine shavings underneath). After two days just removed the paper towels and they are having so much fun now kicking around in the pine shavings... They are picking at the shavings and sometimes run around with one but I don't think that they eat it.

 

[rancher hicks]

I usually use paper towels, pileing the new over the old a hundred time a day. When I get tired or run out of paper towels I switch. Maybe a couple of weeks or so.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I've never used paper towels in the brooder. The go straight onto shavings from day one.

.....Alan.

 

[MissouriGal13]

We got our six little day olds on March 25. I just put in pine shavings this evening. They went crazy scratching and pecking at the shavings. Funny to see tho' I worried they'd eat a bunch of them. Went upstairs to do a few other chores and when I returned, found that they'd kicked the waterer tray full of shavings which had wicked all the water out. So, put a plastic tray under the waterer and feeder and cleaned and refilled all of it. Going to check them again before bed. Good gracious, I don't remember my Wellsummers or Barred Plymouth Rock babies being so wild. These Amerucana chicks seem flightier and I worry they won't tame down. That is if they survive the pine shaving experiment. I had been using the paper towels but they had begun shredding them and getting them into the waterer, too. Any ideas?