On the advice of the doctor the divan was opened, when it was found to be stuffed with wood shavings such as are used for packing eggs.
Low levels have occasionally been found in food, particularly poultry products, as a direct result of the use of shavings from treated wood as litter for animals.
Wood shavings are the material most commonly used as litter in broiler sheds.
Yes, they are kept on wood shavings, but, as he said, they are there only for a short period and it is not necessary to replace them.
Pot scourers were once made from the shavings of metals, which was an excellent way of using up waste materials.
Owing to leg weakness, many of them spend long periods squatting in the litter, generally wood shavings, that covers the floors of broiler sheds.
The birds are kept on litter, usually wood shavings, which is often never changed throughout their short miserable lives.
Little shavings have been taken off corners, houses have been taken down here and a tree uprooted there.
