winter bedding

[Going Quackers]

How much do you pay for one of those bales? they are 5.50 here and I top dress every ones beds every 2 weeks. the chickens coop will be up to the ceiling by spring.

they'll have lil tunnels to get out in the morning.

LOL.. moles masqueraded as chickens. Um, for that plastic bag, 4.95$ if i buy the paper ones they are more 5.50$ I use flax with the chickens, i also pick clean multiple times a week so i don't add a ton, i stir... of coarse in this cold, i did top up.

 

[Going Quackers]

I have found that the plastic-wrapped shavings give off quite a bit of volatile compounds (quite aromatic) when I open them, and I don't like to subject the duckies to that, so I buy from a hardware store that carries the paper-wrapped shavings. Even so, sometimes the shavings are so fresh, they come out smelling strongly of resin. So I try to restock so that they are not too whiffy when I use them.

I love the smell of the wood, i bed in the morning/day most of the time the birds aren't in the coops... of coarse with this cold i had to work around a few ladies on the shelf but the coop for the main flock is pretty roomy.. trouble with paper is it gets wet/damp... and frozen~

 

[Amiga]

I love the smell of the wood, i bed in the morning/day most of the time the birds aren't in the coops... of coarse with this cold i had to work around a few ladies on the shelf but the coop for the main flock is pretty roomy.. trouble with paper is it gets wet/damp... and frozen~

Yes, it can. I have the luxury of about 16 square feet right next to the night pen, where I can stack up to eight bales. Makes a very nice cot during a tornado, too. I am relatively small, so two bales end to end is just right. Baby bear that I am.

 

[Going Quackers]

Yes, it can. I have the luxury of about 16 square feet right next to the night pen, where I can stack up to eight bales. Makes a very nice cot during a tornado, too. I am relatively small, so two bales end to end is just right. Baby bear that I am.

Yeah, we have storage but i admit i often toss them out of the car onto the driveway and leave them there then haul them back later, with paper i have to haul quickly. My storage is set a way distance from the coops, those i have close to the house, a few are actually like out my back door lol

 

[Amiga]

Yeah, we have storage but i admit i often toss them out of the car onto the driveway and leave them there then haul them back later, with paper i have to haul quickly. My storage is set a way distance from the coops, those i have close to the house, a few are actually like out my back door lol

Most of our homes and homesteads were probably not designed for flock keeping. The night shelter here is in the walkout basement, and not quite near the driveway, so I end up hoisting the bales one at a time, walking them oh, maybe 30 or 40 feet to the door of the basement. From there it is just a couple of feet to the storage area. When my arm was out of commission for a couple of weeks last summer, I had to have help getting that done.

An eighty year old friend told me she has a little cart she uses for hauling feed bags from the car to the coop storage area. Now, she's got maybe 150 feet to travel with all that. And she gets help for bales of straw.

 

[Going Quackers]

Most of our homes and homesteads were probably not designed for flock keeping. The night shelter here is in the walkout basement, and not quite near the driveway, so I end up hoisting the bales one at a time, walking them oh, maybe 30 or 40 feet to the door of the basement. From there it is just a couple of feet to the storage area. When my arm was out of commission for a couple of weeks last summer, I had to have help getting that done.

An eighty year old friend told me she has a little cart she uses for hauling feed bags from the car to the coop storage area. Now, she's got maybe 150 feet to travel with all that. And she gets help for bales of straw.

well, we designed it all lol BUT in my defense, we put that kind of storage way back because we need the bedding closer for the horses and sheep(straw) so i piggyback storage for the poultry bedding. We have an old radio flyer wagon of the kids with air tires and then a utility sled. if of coarse we cannot drive that is the easiest... but alas weather can make for an awful surface to drive.