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Kaytee Aspen bedding and litter

Flagg said:
Not all areas have co-op stores. That's a rural thing.
I wish I could find one in the near west suburbs of Chicago.

We do have "feed stores", which are slightly cheaper than pet stores and stock a better variety of animal feeds in bulk, but they are not nearly as cheap as your "co-op" stores.

Kaytee Aspen 2 cubic foot bag at feed store, 10.99. At PetSmart, I think it's 12.99. Petco carries another brand and it's like 15.99
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Oh if you take a drive to the suburbs you can find one. I lived in NW Indiana an almost suburb of Chicago area and we had co-op stores as well. You just need to look around, they are out there.
 
Sure, NW Indiana has them. Closest to me is 56 miles. Not quite worth the drive with gas at $4.20 per gallon. Like I said, a rural thing.
 
co-op (kō'ŏp', kō-ŏp') pronunciation
n.

A cooperative.

I don't know bout the rest of the country but around here (KS) they were originally owned by groups of local farmers. It was a way to get supplies cheaper since as a group they bought in larger quantities, and to get better prices when they sold their crops. Generally they were built close to railroads also to keep costs down. Most towns around here still have one up and going. But yes like Flagg said it is mainly a rural/small town thing.
 
i knew the literal meaning of co-op. I was just curious to know if it stood for something else in the whole "farm" industry. Either way, thanks for the info. Hopefully I'll find something near me.:)
 
aspen

hi nanci, yes i.viv just bought soon aspen but not use it yet very small bag . at moment i've got wood chips in viv , got a couple of weeks before I need to change substrate.
 
james said:
hi guyz can you use any reptile substrate for corn snake i.e coconut shavings .
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I wouldn't say you could use any reptile substrate. The local petstore suggested some kind of dark wood chips (not shavings) for the corn my sis-in-law bought (which they told her was a leucistic rat snake :nope:) She kept the snake on that until we bought her and put her on aspen. We were pulling dark splinters out of her for about a month as they worked their way out from under her scales. Poor girl :(

If she wasn't a snow, we probably wouldn't have even seen the splinters.
We've had her for more than a year now and she's never had a splinter with aspen.

You are also not supposed to use sand.
 
Is the Sun Seed aspen nice & finely shredded so snakes can make burrows in it? I am buying small bags of the finely shredded stuff because my snakes like tunneling so much but it's getting expensive!
 
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