Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips?

[fat brown hen]

Our weather since last year is just excessive and prolong rain. Humidity is high and mud....... Even my 1kg sugar bag has insect growing in it, so goes with the wheat flour, oat... We have a small humidity machine to remove humidity in our storage room.

ooh, that is tough to deal with. Have you tried wood pellets? I add those to my paper shreds when we get flooded around here. They absorb moisture better than anything else I've tried. The pellets disintegrate into sawdust when wet.

 

[2 Acres]

I guess the conditions and how it's mixed as well as the outside weather would effect the paper.
Glad it's working for you. I definitely wouldn't try it knowing my conditions.

If you are also shredding newspaper, consider that the ink may be toxic to the chickens.

 

[SkyAJK]

ooh, that is tough to deal with. Have you tried wood pellets? I add those to my paper shreds when we get flooded around here. They absorb moisture better than anything else I've tried. The pellets disintegrate into sawdust when wet.

I don't think we have wood pellets over here. The bedding materials at the produce shops here are just the usual pine shaving, hays, hemp.