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During the winter I plug the holes in my boxes and put a couple inches of shredded hemp for bedding. I have a camera in one box and I think I noticed blue birds going in and eating it. Anyone heard of this? I give them mealworms, but would be awesome if this hemp was another option. A safer place to eat and it will stay dry and less waste.
I would think that there is no nutritional value if they are eating the hemp shavings. Do you have a camera that shows this? I would be more inclined to think they are eating tiny bugs in the shavings. It’s not their normal diet at all.
I don’t know what hemp shavings are like but I’m not fond of pine shavings that you can buy for guinea pigs etc. The reason is…I let me kids have guinea pigs growing up and that stuff would hold the urine! It was a caked mess when I cleaned it out. My boxes are in the open and eventually get rain inside, no matter how large the roof or how the hole is turned. And birds going in and out of the box also put moisture in the bedding.
With my purple martins I only use white pine needles because they dry up very quickly. I would never use pine shavings because the martins coming in and out would cause it to get wet and stay wet.
Just my thoughts though.Tammy
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