Stephine
True BYH Addict
I have been using straw bedding for my three babydolls, but would love to find something better after reading that straw is usually heavily treated with herbicides that stick around for a very long time. I am using the composted manure on our landscaping plants and fruit trees, so I have been choosing straw over pine shavings because it makes (if not contaminated) better compost. But I am also having trouble with terrible ammonia smell every spring because the sheep get sooo much protein grazing on filaree, clover, etc., this time of year. I just cleaned their stall and two days later the ammonia smell is back already. I would love to use hemp, because I imagine it would allow me to rake out most of their pellets and cut back on the fly population that way. Also it is more absorbent than straw, not treated with pesticides and much easier to muck out. I worry it’ll get stuck in their wool though. I am not really using the wool - they get sheared twice a year and the fleece doesn’t get quite long enough for spinning - but I still don’t want them to get all covered in hemp bits. Has anyone tried hemp bedding for sheep? Do you have any other tips for me?
