Arizona Chickens

[igorsMistress]

Scorpions will also hide out in nesting boxes if you use hay. My next door neighbor told me that chickens will eat the scorpions and be just fine, but if they get stung by one, it can paralyze them for maybe up to 3 or 4 days where they can't walk. If that happen's, you need to separate the chicken from the flock, and set water and food bowls right next to them, or they won't be able to get to it.

Good to know!! Do you know if it's just the hay, or is it anything including pine and stuff?

Btw Blue Kazoo is our official roo now. He's getting big, does a great job keeping his little flock together. They've been free ranging for a couple days but stick to the side yard where their coop is. No one has ventured into the big world beyond, but they peek a lot!

 

[SonoranChick]

We have been having lots of scorpions this year, I just found one in my boot the other day. It tells me there is a larger pest issue if the scorpions are this populous

 

[Junochick]

I hunt scorpions with a black light. I have lived in AZ 30+years I smash the ones I find. I don't spray any bug killers .

 

[meetthebubus]

@DuckMochi yes!

 

[DuckMochi]

@igorsMistress @BlueBaby Yes scorpions are not fatal to fowl NORMALLY. They can become paralyzed for days or they can come out of it fairly quickly. My duck, Mochi, didn't just get stung by one but she ate it. This wouldn't have been a big deal but she swallowed it whole. Cayugas are big ducks and she swallowed that scorpion whole and still alive with no problem. It stung her multiple times from the inside, probably on her throat and in her stomach until the acid killed it. This much venom being in her probably would have killed her already, but her throat may have swollen up due to the stings as well. I'm not worried about the chickens when it comes to scorpions because they peck at things, they don't swallow them whole. But we just got a pekin duckling and pekins are also large ducks and I'm just worried that the same accident might happen again

 

[BlueBaby]

Good to know!! Do you know if it's just the hay, or is it anything including pine and stuff?

Btw Blue Kazoo is our official roo now. He's getting big, does a great job keeping his little flock together. They've been free ranging for a couple days but stick to the side yard where their coop is. No one has ventured into the big world beyond, but they peek a lot!

Most anything and mostly places where they can hide, or areas that aren't normally disturbed.... hay, grass, wood chips, wood piles, etc.

So, did you just end up with only the one blue roo in the bunch, then? I just moved 6 more chicks out to my wire dog crate for them out in the coop yesterday, but still have 2 in the house yet (my little splash that I think is a girl, and a blue to keep her company for now).

 

[BlueBaby]

We have been having lots of scorpions this year, I just found one in my boot the other day. It tells me there is a larger pest issue if the scorpions are this populous

Don't forget to spray around your bed. About 6 years ago I rolled over in my sleep and got stung in the back by one.

 

[DuckMochi]

I've only had 2 scorpions in my room ever in my 19 years of living but we've had plenty in the house. None of my family has been stung yet somehow. Our cat usually finds them in the house before something back can happen, we know when she's found something by the way she acts. As for the ones outside we go out with a black light and spray them. Occasionally my dad will step on them but I can't get myself to do that it grosses me out

 

[BlueBaby]

I hunt scorpions with a black light. I have lived in AZ 30+years I smash the ones I find. I don't spray any bug killers .

It's a good idea anyways to use one of those lights if you have to go out after dark during the season that they are out. You can see where they are because the eyes on them will show up real good.

 

[BlueBaby]

I've only had 2 scorpions in my room ever in my 19 years of living but we've had plenty in the house. None of my family has been stung yet somehow. Our cat usually finds them in the house before something back can happen, we know when she's found something by the way she acts. As for the ones outside we go out with a black light and spray them. Occasionally my dad will step on them but I can't get myself to do that it grosses me out

That just reminded me... for in the house, you can buy some of those Catchmaster mouse and insect glue boards from Walmart. Leave them flat when you use one, and put it where your cat or other pets can't get to them. Those things catch everything that thinks it can cross over it! I sometimes find scorpions on the one's that I set out!.