Wood shavings vs. chopped straw bedding

[Bear Foot Farm]

This is all good info. I am slightly bummed though as I will have chickens for the first time this coming Spring and was hoping to use straw for bedding. That was the plan so that I could put it in the compost pile and use on my garden

Wood shavings can be composted too
It's all mostly Cellulose

 

[sahmhomesteader]

Wood shavings can be composted too
It's all mostly Cellulose

Does it take longer? I don't know why but one of my gardening books says to avoid wood shavings or sawdust in compost piles...

 

[Krischick]

use both mix them up on the floor helps in the winter to insulate the hens...an the mixture will help with moisture control

 

[Dee5385]

Ok, I'm newer to chickens so I'm starting to look into changing up what I've been doing. I have be using straw and I have found it mattes down pretty fast. When everybody is talking about shavings are to talking about the same stuff you use for the baby chicks? I have linoleum flooring in my coop and there's no edge on the coop where the door is for me to go in and out as needed (coop sits 3 1/2 feet of the ground) so I'm worried the shavings might get to be wasteful

Here's my coop!