Yes I have put my flock into lockdown.
I have 8 ducks who are currently occupying the garage, in a biggish pen full of chopped straw. For entertainment, I scatter mealworms and wheat in the deep carpet of bedding which keeps them busy, and once a day I'm letting them bathe in their big trugs.
My small flock always stay in their run anyway (I have lost way too many to foxes and badgers) so don't really find it any different, apart from the fact that their run is now covered in a clear tarp. I normally move their coop/run every couple of days, but I don't want to risk moving them onto any wild bird poop, so I'm going to try hanging a cabbage up in their run to give them some greens.
I do feel pretty worried since only a couple of fields away, lives a HUGE flock of wild geese. We also have a LOT of wild waterfowl and gulls in our area. I really hope Bird Flu doesn't reach the UK. If it does, I will seriously freak out and start disinfecting everything and move the chickens inside the garage aswell.
I have 8 ducks who are currently occupying the garage, in a biggish pen full of chopped straw. For entertainment, I scatter mealworms and wheat in the deep carpet of bedding which keeps them busy, and once a day I'm letting them bathe in their big trugs.
My small flock always stay in their run anyway (I have lost way too many to foxes and badgers) so don't really find it any different, apart from the fact that their run is now covered in a clear tarp. I normally move their coop/run every couple of days, but I don't want to risk moving them onto any wild bird poop, so I'm going to try hanging a cabbage up in their run to give them some greens.
I do feel pretty worried since only a couple of fields away, lives a HUGE flock of wild geese. We also have a LOT of wild waterfowl and gulls in our area. I really hope Bird Flu doesn't reach the UK. If it does, I will seriously freak out and start disinfecting everything and move the chickens inside the garage aswell.