Substrata from Lowes

[Skiploder]

Skip, would you say that non-kiln dried pine is also safe?

Seems like most of the hardware store brands of cypress are mixed with pine.

I can honestly say I've never seen non-dried pine bedding for sale. Beddings (and shavings) are dried to make them absorbent.

Selling non-dried bedding would negate one of the biggest reasons for buying it.

The mixtures solds at Lowes and Home Depot are usually a 60/40 (or so) split between cypress and pine respectively.

Since these are sold as mulch and not as bedding, I would assume that they just go through the same splintering process cypress endures - no drying, just grinding.