Baking soda in bedding?

[KaleIAm]

What about sweet pdz? I know it is made for the purpose of absorbing amonia and waste odors. I use it in my barn with my adult animals, ducks and goats. It works well. I'm not aware of any issues for ducklings, but you should check up on that just in case. I didn't start using it until mine were very much adults. Ducklings are probably more likely to eat it.

 

[Fuchsia]

I've got a few of those notes around...

 

[416bigbore]

May be this will help you?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...a is great stuff,eventually it will kill them.

 

[chickenlittle21]

that helps?

Yes!

 

[nao57]

What about sweet pdz? I know it is made for the purpose of absorbing amonia and waste odors. I use it in my barn with my adult animals, ducks and goats. It works well. I'm not aware of any issues for ducklings, but you should check up on that just in case. I didn't start using it until mine were very much adults. Ducklings are probably more likely to eat it.

Oh yeah! They most DEFINITELY would try to eat it. haha

 

[DuckyVeit]

I had mine on towels and replaced the towels five million times a day. My house still smelled like duck poop.

Touching a towel sopped in giant bird poo sounds like a really bad dream You're a champ!

My ducks are not inside but they still stink! Like bad!

Well I know moving them outside won't cure their horrible eternal stank. But at least it won't be in my living room.

The baking soda trick would technically help with the smell. A candle also may help with that.

Technically at 5 weeks, your ducklings should be old enough to go into a backyard and be able to survive (as long as there aren't predators, or other concerns.) Some people even take them out earlier, at 4 weeks even.

I ended up finding a post - on these forums, actually - from about 10 years ago where a lady vouched for baking soda, so I sprinkled a fair amount over some fresh bedding last night. Unfortunately it didn't do much, if anything at all.

They've been outside for the majority of today and the smell is already gone. I'll have to bring them back in as it starts to get dark because I'm still not done with their house, but it was nice to be rid of the smell for more than the 30-60 minutes it takes them to stinkify the totes lol!!

 

[jewelg]

I was wondering if I could try sprinkling some baking soda in with their bedding to try and at least cut down the smell? Would that harm them if they happened to taste test? Or has anybody tried it before, and did it work? Any suggestions/advice would be marvelous before I lose my mind, because I can't stand a stinky house SOS!

In the fridge, we just have a container of baking soda resting on a shelf, soaking up the bad stuff. Could you just put an open container (or a few of them) around the room they're in and see if that works, rather than sprinkling into the bedding? Another thing you might try is - I know this sounds weird and we thought it did, too, but it totally worked - cut an onion or two in half and put them out in the room or on a window sill. When my step-daughter got food poisoning and vomited from her top bunk bed over the rail and onto the floor, splashing bits of macaroni and partially digested salmon all over the room, it still smelled like fish and puke after 3 rounds of cleaning. My father-in-law told us to do this onion thing and seriously, guys - 48 hours later, you could not even tell the Great Salmon Vomit of 2017 had happened.

 

[Fuchsia]

Yes!

I should try that!
We already have it because our goats had mites in the early spring and we got a big thing of it and didn’t use it all.

 

[nao57]

Actually I want to say about the stink that it does go down a lot outside quite fast.

And part of this is because dunk poop dissolves quite fast under a hose sprayer.

So if you just turn on the sprayer with a bit of pressure, you can zap it all, and it crumbles right there within seconds. Less chance for mess. And when people comment about ducks being messy they don't really remember to point out how fast and easy you can make it go away with a hose sprayer.

I don't have to do this every day also. I just do it about 2 or 3 times a week, and its really fast, just passing over the whole pen area fast with the spray within about two minutes. (I often also will spray out their buckets at this time also and replace the water but still fast. And if you have several buckets in the pen, you don't have to be out there every day also, because you have insurance water for when they use more etc, and for if they spill some, or if you can't get to it fast.) But in winter I'm going to consider if I'll want to use some kind of rubber shoe coverings or something to keep my pants and shoes from getting all wet.

 

[416bigbore]

Isn't fermented feed suppose to cure the stinky poop while providing great probiotics for your poultry ?