There will be no more "bird brains" around this farm anymore. Our birds will be well-read, educated chickens. In our never-ending effort to reuse materials to keep our costs down as well as recycle, we have started using shredded paper in their coops. When you have access to a large bag of shredded paper every day, this is easy (and free), not to mention, environmentally friendly. It's even easier when you become known as the "egg lady" at work so people start looking for ways to help you. Hence the piles of egg cartons on my desk each afternoon and the offerings of more shredded paper from households far and wide. All it took was one day of walking down the hall carrying my bag of shredded paper. In the winter the chicken yards can get pretty muddy, no matter how often we move them, and muddy yards equal dirty eggs. Shavings work well, but can get expensive. We have also tried straw, but they drag it out of the boxes into the coop. Straw also hides the eggs when the chickens try to nest so the egg gatherer has to sift through it to find them. Paper mixed in with the shavings is our new trial. As long as we can keep the chickens from putting together these classified documents...
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