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Add Fresh Bedding to Brooder

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Raising your own food..So what's next? Helpful tips for your new baby birds!!

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What happens here

With the feeders and waterer removed, take a bag of fresh wood shavings (e.g., 'Sugar Creek Shavings') and pour a generous amount directly into the brooder. Create a pile in the center and then spread it out evenly over the existing, soiled bedding. This quick method helps to cover and absorb new droppings, providing a cleaner surface for the chicks without requiring a full bedding change every day. The presenter notes that the birds may get 'testy' but it won't hurt them.

Goal: Distribute a fresh layer of wood shavings over the soiled bedding in the brooder, creating a clean and dry surface for the chicks.

Tools and materials

  • Wood Shavings

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now simply enough guys you see the chickens pecking through all the manure and all the shavings what we want to do here is just put a little coat of shavings in here now the birds get a little testy it's okay it's not gonna hurt put a nice pile right in the center just like that and then take and spread out your little pile and give them a fresh bed savings start off we need to add a little bit more in here as you spread the shavings your birds will just move around a little bit and the shavings are great for the birds it's not gonna hurt them one bit just sprinkle em right on top of them now that we've got our shavings all spread

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