How to Recycle Sawdust and Wood Chips as Farm Animal Bedding

Everyone who has ever cut wood has created sawdust and wood chips as waste. There is no need to throw all that sawdust away. Instead, recycle it into animal bedding. Sawdust is a comfortable, absorbent material for farm animals to sleep on.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Sawdust
• Wood chips
• Broom
• Trash bag or wheel barrow
• Shovel

1. Sweep the sawdust and wood chips to the center of the room and shovel it into a trash bag or wheelbarrow. Some farmers even supply wood shops with 55 gallon drums to fill with sawdust over time, and then pick the drums up once or twice a month.

2. Sweep out the animal's sleeping quarters before moving the sawdust in.

3. Shovel the sawdust and wood chips into the animal's quarter. Create a pile relative to the size of the animal. Shape the pile into a soft, flat "pillow" large enough for the animal to sleep on.

4. Change the sawdust one to three times a week, depending on the amount of time the animal stays in the area and the cleanliness of the sawdust.

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on 7/10/2009 Interesting.