Re: Hemp Bedding

diddy wrote:
in thread news:467319af$0$8743$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:

Shadow wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:21:38 GMT, Steve Newport
<steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have just been given a bale of shredded hemp bedding. Is this OK to
put down for the chooks?
use hay and smoke the hemp.

Hay is for feeding to horses not putting under chooks


What is wrong with using it for chickens? I use the left over chaff
off the hay wagons and collect it for nest boxes. Chickens seem to do
fabulously on it.

It's a long fine fibre and becomes a wet pappy, stringy, mess in anything
but dry climates and it has a high tendancy to carry mites from wild birds
from storage locations. Its also expensive.
Chaff as a short fibre is a different material altogether but few have
access to it.


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