All my girls are dead!

[Blue CopperHen]

I have done my share of live trapping and dispatching, and it works well but can get labor intensive for me as I am a single woman with a full time job and horses, chickens and dogs. I am curious about spraying ammonia in a bottle around the outside perimeter of your runs? Would it be harmful to the birds? It works to repel varmits from my trash cans very well.

 

[MalMom]

I have done my share of live trapping and dispatching, and it works well but can get labor intensive for me as I am a single woman with a full time job and horses, chickens and dogs. I am curious about spraying ammonia in a bottle around the outside perimeter of your runs? Would it be harmful to the birds? It works to repel varmits from my trash cans very well.

Oh that's a GREAT idea! I can't wait to hear the answer!

 

[Blue CopperHen]

Me, too!

 

[KelsiNS]

Peppermint oil has kept pests out after i lost some of my girls

 

[dpenning]

I have done my share of live trapping and dispatching, and it works well but can get labor intensive for me as I am a single woman with a full time job and horses, chickens and dogs. I am curious about spraying ammonia in a bottle around the outside perimeter of your runs? Would it be harmful to the birds? It works to repel varmits from my trash cans very well.

I don't have chickens (Yet) but when I had other birds I know I had to be very careful about anything scented or cleaning products around them as they have very sensitive respiratory systems. Think canaries in mines to warn of toxic gas fumes, the birds would die before it would be detected or felt by the miners. I would be very careful with ammonia around birds.

But again, I don't have chickens so I'll sit back and learn what some of the experienced folks have to say!

 

[centrarchid]

I don't have chickens (Yet) but when I had other birds I know I had to be very careful about anything scented or cleaning products around them as they have very sensitive respiratory systems. Think canaries in mines to warn of toxic gas fumes, the birds would die before it would be detected or felt by the miners. I would be very careful with ammonia around birds.

But again, I don't have chickens so I'll sit back and learn what some of the experienced folks have to say!

They can handle ammonia reasonably well but the ammonia does not stay around long. You may have to apply it each evening to get desired effect. Having in an open bottle with a wick might work better spraying it about. It would then work like kind of like a stinky armpit.

 

[Blue CopperHen]

This is why I ask, because one would think it wouldn't be good for the chickens.

 

[Blue CopperHen]

They can handle ammonia reasonably well but the ammonia does not stay around long. You may have to apply it each evening to get desired effect. Having in an open bottle with a wick might work better spraying it about. It would then work like kind of like a stinky armpit.

Thanks! lol

 

[Fancychooklady]

Oh boy I'm glad there are no raccoons in Australia!

 

[centrarchid]

This is why I ask, because one would think it wouldn't be good for the chickens.

If you ever had the unpleasant experience of working in an intensive egg production facility, like with the battery cages in building almost as big as football fields, you will note the smell of ammonia coming from the manure pits. That as well as the build up of carbon dioxide and consumption of oxygen are reasons for the ventilation systems used for such buildings. That and heat removal.