Giving up on our wooden coop we are getting an Arkus this week so that we can eliminate red mite easier.
Time to lay down a good cleaning regime. What tasks do you do weekly and monthly in your plastic coop?do you clean it in situ usually, and how often do you haul it out of the run onto the...
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So this is going to be more of a collection of ideas all in one place for chicken eggs. I'm aware of the pros and the cons of egg washing for the most part. But I still think this would be a useful thread for anyone looking for the arguments from both sides, as well as a poll to...
After three weeks of fighting red mite in our wooden coop, I am done. We have done everything we can, every three days. Yesterday we went over every inch of it with a hot hair dryer, and sprayed it completely and thoroughly with Smite, and dusted down with DE, but still on a piece of tape I put...
I'm getting close to raising just a few Coturnix quail for fun (and a few eggs). I think I'm going to put their pen on the ground on top of dirt, then packed with sand on top of that for them to roam around. My question is if I had 2-3 quail, how much clean up should I be expecting? Once a week...
Hi, I have a run with rubber chip on top of paving slabs
I tried to clean it today by taking out the dirty chips and cleaning them with the garden hose in a bucket. This appears to leave a lot of vegetation around the chips, I assume this comes from their pellets.
Can any one recommend a more...
Hi, I have a white leghorn hen and a rooster. One day I saw how the feathers directly above her butt, just before the tail feathers, was brown. I think my rooster stepped in poo before he mounted her. I tried washing it off, but that didn't seem to work well, and after a week, she still smells...
I have 17 3 1/2 month old chickens. They have a 8x8 chicken coop with a wood floor that is covered with plexiglass. Their roosts are 2x4s and a poop board underneath. The poop board has sand with PDZ in it. The floor of the coop has wood chips with DE. I have 4 wooden nest boxes with straw...
Hello, I'm working on a project with my rooster's spurs. I'm making earrings, but before I do anything I'm unsure on what to use to clean them. Yes, the inside is hollow, with dry blood from when they were removed. Which, is why I need them cleaned- regardless they need cleaned.
I'm curious on...
I am dying to start my own flock of chickens and have been researching everything I can about them for right at 2 years now. The one thing holding me back is my husband is 50/50 on them. He likes the thought of having them but a coworker of his has them and says she cleans the coop regularly but...
My one chick in the brooder (it hatched several days before others) has poop stuck to its feathers. As far as I can tell, it is not covering or blocking the vent, but it is stuck to the feathers below the vent.
I can't get it off...
Is this a cause of concern? Should I try to remove it from the...
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This year I decided to give ducks a try. I have two magpie ducks that are a week old living in my bathroom.
Here's what I learned very quickly as new duck owner. Ducks are messy! I had heard that but I don't think I fully understood what that meant.
My question is- What do those...
I have a couple of ducks in my backyard. I live in the city. I have a small backyard. Their fenced in area (which used to be my vegetable garden) is just a layer of matted duck poop. Is their anything I can put down on the ground that would make it possible to clean once in a while? And if there...
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I’m in upstate NY. Waiting for some warmer weather. The once fluffy little ducklings are already starting to quack and they need to go outside soon!
We still have some eggs in our incubator. I want to put something (if I can) in the humidity tank so that I can keep the...
Hi! We got our chicks (and two ducklings!) about 2.5 weeks ago, and so far everything is going really well! We had them in a kiddie pool in the heated garage (still had a heat lamp to make sure it was comfortable for them), but we just finished building our coop and moved them in on Friday! They...
I just hatched my Set of eggs a minute ago..And will probably be moving the chicks out of the incubator tommorow..I just want to know how to clean the Incubator..
It is a homemade incubator made from a fridge and 40w bulbs..
I want to clean it in such a manner that i wont damage the electric...
I decided that coop 2.0 was going to be easy to clean. So I built it with 3 large floor trays (plywood) and 3 nest boxes that rest on the floating floors. Cleaning this thing is a breeze.
To clean?
1.) Pull out nest boxes (no tools required)
2.) Pull out each floor panel (no tools required)...
I had 16 birds killed by a bobcat about 2 weeks ago. 11 hens, one rooster, and 5 guinea hens. (It was very upsetting. 3 of the chickens came by name and most let me pick them up and followed me around.) I live in Massachusetts. I did call MassWildlife and they said most bobcats arent rabid. Id...
I have two different coops from TSC. A little red one (8 chicken size) bought last year and a walk-in big green one (10 chicken size) bought this year. Both need repainting and I am 1/2 done so they are not red & green really, LOL. The little red one has a design that has a roost above the ramp...
Hi, I'm a high schooler with three rhode island reds and was doing an antibacterial project in school. I am wondering what kinds of bacteria are found in coops besides the typical salmonella and E. Coli. Thank you in advance!
At the moment i have 1 hen, and she has dried clumps of "chicken feces" stuck to her bum feathers. Ive tried baths, but it doesnt work with getting it off. Any suggestions with how to clean her?