I had some chicks die one time and got to reading on feathersite not to use pine shaving or cedar because they eat the shavings get stopped up and die. Everywhere you look pics and articles they are using pine shavings. I just bought some chicks and used paper towels for the first few days . then when the birds knew where their food was i put shavings in . the next day one was dead . he was real heavy too and felt like his crop was full. So i panicked and took out the shavings. no other birds have died. im sure that he was probably the only one who was eating the shavings cause they would have gotten sick at the same time. my question is what else is there to use? and why do most people use the shavings . it seems that enough people have problems with the shavings . is it ok to lose a couple of chicks out of every batch to this ?
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