Anyone hear about the bird flu @ Tyson in Arkansas? Yikes!

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Quote: The deal is last time I tried brooding up 40 guinea Keets in my moms garage. One purple tote became too small after one week.... Two purple totes became too small after two weeks.... By three weeks they can FLY....
I made a cube out of pVC and took away the heat lamp... Ambient temperature was 90 degrees any way... they only needed it at night at first. But the cube was four feet cubed.... I had shavings in every nook and cranny and bird dust in even smaller nooks and crannys throughout that garage.... The little reprobates were going through a fifty pound bag of turkey starter A WEEK flinging it out of the brooder..... Oh and did I mention Turkey starter was in all the same nooks and crannys....
No next time There will be no bedding and all feed and water will be over wire... The place where they will lay to cuddle will have either sand or rice hulls.
The wire will have a sling under it made of used feed sacks so when poop lands it will dry and the sack can be replaced by fastening another on one end pulling it through and rolled up.
The feed will be dispensed in external hopper where their heads go through the wire for access.... NO foood flinging or marching on my next watch.... Same goes for the water... I dont do nipple waterers therefore the water will be on the outside of the brooder box accessed through wire....
If I were going to do this inside I would have dander collectors in the form of exhaust fans and directed ventilation... fresh air in a positive flow directed out through filter material.... Or just outside maybe through a dryer vent.
I dont need or want to handle the keets I would rather they not be tame.... Same would go for Meaties....
deb
Anyone hear about the bird flu @ Tyson in Arkansas? Yikes!![]()
rumors I heard on the news... nothing confirmed yet.
As I said on another thread my willpower is fading fast and the only thing stopping me from brooding chicks inside is my asthma. LOL
Lil 'T - the other half of tntchix - must stop dragging me (ok I willingly go) to see all the cute chicks.![]()
I read on someone's website that says they don't put fragile on their shipped eggs, they think the mail is more likely to throw them around. I don't know which is safer, shipped eggs scare me. But I guess jem had good luck.
Sam, you aren't helping.Ducklings aren't nearly as dusty...![]()