Brooding is the raising of chicken from day old till the time they grow feathers and are able to produce heat by the feathers, till the time they don't need external heat to keep them warm.


When it comes to brooding, we have brooding materials. Which are


Wood shavings : This is somehow curve, not dusty, sometimes it comprises of small small light woods. They are good for flooring of the brooding house. The shavings are not too small and there fore would not enter the nose of the small chicken, chicks .
If anything should block the nose of the chicks, it would lead to another problem.

Newspaper / carton : These are also used for flooring the brooding house, it is based on preference whether you would use wood shavings or newspaper.
Some people don't like the stress of removing the shavings every week or 3 days interval, the stress of sweeping the wood shaving, looking for wood shavings, spreading wood shavings etc. So they prefer newspaper.
When using newspaper, you just remove the paper and place a new one.



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