Treated pine

[neusje]

Can I use shavings froM treated pine for bedding

 

[casportpony]

No, best to use untreated.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I would not. I use treated pine for a lot of things but that's in lumber form. With shavings you have a lot more surface area for those chemicals to evaporate or just be available. Whenever you split a piece of wood you double the surface area. By the time you get to shavings you have tremendously increased the surface area.

Besides, if you compost the bedding treated wood is not what you want to put in the compost. But that is just a detail. The real concern is the increased surface area so an increased exposure.

 

[3KillerBs]

I would not. I use treated pine for a lot of things but that's in lumber form. With shavings you have a lot more surface area for those chemicals to evaporate or just be available. Whenever you split a piece of wood you double the surface area. By the time you get to shavings you have tremendously increased the surface area.

Besides, if you compost the bedding treated wood is not what you want to put in the compost. But that is just a detail. The real concern is the increased surface area so an increased exposure.

Not to mention chickens' weird habit of occasionally eating shavings.

 

[neusje]

Thank you. Good advice.