Dust from the chicks

[Lynette]

I am raising my chicks in a room in the house because it is still too cold here to put them in the garage. Does anyone have any ideas on how to control the dust that comes off of them? It sticks to EVERYTHING!

 

[hennyannie]

We have give up on this, in fact we are not even gonna clean our shop until they are outta there.

 

[X2Farm]

What we ended up doing, and it helped but didn't eliminate all the dust, is take a small desktop fan, place it close to the brooder, fanning air away from it, take a filterish style material and zip tie it to the fan and keep it on medium/low. It pulls the air/dust and filters a good bit of it into the filter and not every nook, cranny and crevice within a 100 mile radius

 

[SourRoses]

I only just read about this "dust" here on the forum... after all my research and 2 weeks with my chicks! LOL...
My little Silkie chicks are in a brooder in my room... and I have not noticed any kind of dust... I wonder if Silkies dont "dust"?

Ooooh! I wonder... what if you slather your chickies with something, like Aloe vera or hair conditioner... maybe the dust would stick to the goo and you could give them regular baths!

Practical, right?

 

[hennyannie]

That fan idea rocks! I have seen folks set up barn fans with filters on both sides to protect the fan, I never even thought about.

 

[emvickrey]

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Silkies is just about all I hatch and I also do it in the house. We have incubators and brooders in the spare room. I also gave up on trying to keep up with the dust. I clean it up about once a month. When it turns summer and hot out and the chicks start living outside I'll clean the room walls and all. The incubators stay inside all year.

I also have a small air purifier sitting on the table with the brooders. It is very little help. I need one of those Oreck ones. That should do the trick. I'd have to clean the "do-hickies" every day probably.