Getting rid of chicken waste/empty food bags etc.

[Matt M]

I use the bags as trash bags or I cut them long way and lay it in the coop then put my newspaper/paper and then beading on top for easy cleaning.

 

[ChicKat]

The UK is far more advanced than the USA in backyard chicken keeping. Perhaps because you will have better survival rates over there more people tend to have a few hens. It is just in the last 5-10 years that it has re-emerged in the USA, I think, -- and becoming more popular.

Probably we won't catch up to you with products like wormers, bumpa bits, even some medications approved over there aren't approved for chickens here (Denagard)-- and over there you all have vets for chickens -- here - not so much. WE can learn a lot from the way things are done in the UK IMO.

I used to spend some time on the Omlet forum - and the first time I desperately needed a chicken vet - there was an online place you could call a vet or get a call back from a vet for $25.00 -- and the vet I spoke with was in Ireland. In my experience here in the USA vets don't do chickens.....

 

[ChicKat]

Just had this one walk into a trap last night -- and -- I didn't even bait the trap -but I did set it out. Now - what to do with it.

 

[HnkyDnkyZZFarm]

Bags go in the bin, we put compost in a lidded box with a latch - that lives far far away from the pens. Food lives in a lidded bin, although it is in the pens, it is also mostly critter proof. I do seem to recall my daughter getting into it and eating the cheap cereal that was supposed to be going to the amm-inals.

We spend most of our year under burn ban regulations/ spare the air. We get about one month a year when we're allowed to burn brush. Out here they've taken away real fireplaces, woodstoves, and implemented burn bans in the name of save the world. Then a volcano goes and erupts and suddenly my brush pile doesn't seem like all that much of an environmental blight.

 

[HnkyDnkyZZFarm]

Just had this one walk into a trap last night -- and -- I didn't even bait the trap -but I did set it out. Now - what to do with it.

 

[ChicKat]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo LOL you really don't

They are NOT like this,

They are like this:

I don't want to hijack this thread -- so I won't post any more.....

about this subject.... they aren't sweet little cuddly things -- they are like a small bear that has rabies and wants to take a piece out of your face.

 

[jools2014]

The UK is far more advanced than the USA in backyard chicken keeping. Perhaps because you will have better survival rates over there more people tend to have a few hens. It is just in the last 5-10 years that it has re-emerged in the USA, I think, -- and becoming more popular.

Probably we won't catch up to you with products like wormers, bumpa bits, even some medications approved over there aren't approved for chickens here (Denagard)-- and over there you all have vets for chickens -- here - not so much. WE can learn a lot from the way things are done in the UK IMO.

I used to spend some time on the Omlet forum - and the first time I desperately needed a chicken vet - there was an online place you could call a vet or get a call back from a vet for $25.00 -- and the vet I spoke with was in Ireland. In my experience here in the USA vets don't do chickens.....

That's surprising! I always think of the USA as being more advanced than us in most things,guess not with chickens! I have taken 3 chickens to the vet before but had to join a new vet with an avian specialist as my regular vet I'm pretty sure wouldn't see chickens!. I still feel a bit weird about taking a chicken to the vet-I had never heard of taking a chicken to the vet before! But then i think well, if they are suffering why not? They are my pets and they deserve veterinary treatment just like any other animal that is suffering. I guess most would just kill the chicken. I have only ever lost chickens to being "egg-bound"-the vet was not able to do anything so I had to have them put to sleep anyway, but at the time I wasn't sure what was wrong with them.

Bags go in the bin, we put compost in a lidded box with a latch - that lives far far away from the pens. Food lives in a lidded bin, although it is in the pens, it is also mostly critter proof. I do seem to recall my daughter getting into it and eating the cheap cereal that was supposed to be going to the amm-inals.

We spend most of our year under burn ban regulations/ spare the air. We get about one month a year when we're allowed to burn brush. Out here they've taken away real fireplaces, woodstoves, and implemented burn bans in the name of save the world. Then a volcano goes and erupts and suddenly my brush pile doesn't seem like all that much of an environmental blight.

Wow, we have no regulations at all, we have a fireplace that we use to burn a lot of household rubbish. No volcanoes either thank goodness! guess we are pretty lucky we can have a bonfire when we like really-no close neighbours. When I think back to how I used to just leave food out all day for the birds I shudder, guess I was just asking for this problem!

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo LOL you really don't

They are NOT like this,

They are like this:

I don't want to hijack this thread -- so I won't post any more.....

about this subject.... they aren't sweet little cuddly things -- they are like a small bear that has rabies and wants to take a piece out of your face.

Feel free to hijack the thread lol. I have never seen a raccoon and know pretty much zero about them so I find it really interesting! And wow that video-yeah glad i don't have a problem with those things!

I don't post too many messages in forums so if I've done the quote thing wrong for multiple quotes sorry!

 

[ChicKat]

I don't post too many messages in forums so if I've done the quote thing wrong for multiple quotes sorry!

You did perfectly.

 

[AllynTal]

I compost all the organic material -- poop, shavings, et al -- and I cut the bags open so they lay flat, hose them off and stash them (a couple in the car, a couple in the tractor, a couple in the gardening shed). The feed I get comes in plastic-ish bags rather than paper. They're real sturdy -- sturdy enough to hold 50 pounds of feed without threatening to tear open. The outside of the bags are colored, but the inside is plain white. I'll use them white-side-up as mulch or they make sturdy drop cloths for dirty jobs like changing the oil (put the bag on the ground so you don't get dirty when you lay down and crawl under the car); when working on something that you have to kneel or put a knee down, put a bag down first so you don't get muddy; put a bag down before you take something apart so if you drop a screw, you can find it without having to hunt through the grass .....stuff like that. They make nice, conveniently sized drop cloths.

 

[aart]

Are your feed bags paper or plastic?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/576095/post-your-other-uses-for-feed-bags

Burning plastic is disgusting..and toxic.