Cleaning the brooder.

[sunshinechick83]

My hubby thinks I have been cleaning the brooder too frequently. We are about to have more chicks later this week but for now we have four. Here is a pic of the brooder right now when I asked hubby to help me clean it again... So my question is this brooder in need of a cleaning before I go to bed or can it wait until morning!

 

[gatorshark75]

My hubby thinks I have been cleaning the brooder too frequently. I we about to have more chicks this week but for now we have four. Here is a pic of the brooder right now when I asked hubby to help me clean it again... So my question is this brooder in need of a cleaning before I go to bed or can it wait until morning!

its not dirty and you should only change it every couple of days i had 100 in my big brooder and only cleaned it once a week. also you can put in pine shavings to help dry up the poo and keep the smell down

 

[sunshinechick83]

its not dirty and you should only change it every couple of days i had 100 in my big brooder and only cleaned it once a week. also you can put in pine shavings to help dry up the poo and keep the smell down

Thanks gator! We have pine shavings but I have read it is disastrous if the chicks eat them...

 

[gatorshark75]

Thanks gator! We have pine shavings but I have read it is disastrous if the chicks eat them...

never had a problem yet ive raise many chicks on pine but i do wait a few days after hatch before the pine shavings go in the brooder it gives them time to learn what to eat but they eat the shavings to im sure of it and all of mine are happy and healthy but now cedar is a death sentence to all small animals

 

[sunshinechick83]

never had a problem yet ive raise many chicks on pine but i do wait a few days after hatch before the pine shavings go in the brooder it gives them time to learn what to eat but they eat the shavings to im sure of it and all of mine are happy and healthy but now cedar is a death sentence to all small animals

I'm guessing I am just being a first time "chick mama"?? lol, I am sure I will look back years from now and laugh myself silly from being so cautious?

 

[gatorshark75]

I'm guessing I am just being a first time "chick mama"?? lol, I am sure I will look back years from now and laugh myself silly from being so cautious?

just think how they would be if they were outside with the mother hen if you think like a chicken i will make better since to you

 

[gatorshark75]

I'm guessing I am just being a first time "chick mama"?? lol, I am sure I will look back years from now and laugh myself silly from being so cautious?

i raised my first two chickens in our master bath until they were almost two months old they roosted in the giant shower when it finally got warm enough to put them outside i would get up in the middle of the night with a red flashlight and go to their coop and check on them i was a worried chicken daddy for sure its just normal to be overprotective i mean we do it to our children why not to our chickens too