How much could 5 or 6 baby chicks smell in a brooder? Help!

[DUCKGIRL89]

I want to get some lavender orpington hatching eggs, but my mom said if they will smell to much I cant. How much would they smell? (please say not to much

I really want them!)

 

[seminolewind]

It depends. While they are inside, change the bedding frequently. I don't think they smell but to someone else, clean bedding is a good freshener.

 

[Marcymom3]

If you change the pine shavings every few days you won't have a problem with smell. We put our eight chicks in a big rubbermaid tub with a heat lamp above them. The whole set-up was in the livingroom.

When they were about 3 weeks old we built a 4 x 4 ft box and that was also in our livingroom for two weeks. Then they got relocated to our screened porch. There was never a smell.

One bail of shavings will last the whole time they're inside and you'll have enough to start with in their coop.

 

[teach1rusl]

The larger the brooder and the more often you clean, the less smells will be present. I've raised 5-6 chicks inside in a brooder 3 different times. I used a LARGE dog crate each time (partially wrapped in cardboard to keep heat in), and cleaned daily, with very little smell. However, even with a large dog crate, my chicks have been moved to a coop before week 4.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Ok, so if I clean it eavery two days, thats good enough? I REALLY want them, and they would need to be in the house for a while, and my mom doesnt like chickens, so it has to be not so smelly...

 

[justafeedboy]

You will need to clean them as often as it smells which might be every day. Owning chickens is a responsibility. The older they get the more often you will change them. No lie they smell. If you keep them in the house.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Ok, thank you all SO much, if she ever PMs me back I will get some (after my duck eggs hatch!)

 

[kizanne]

If your mom doesn't like chickens maybe she just hasn't been around any hand raised chicks cause it is really hard not to fall for those friendly, quirky little girls.

 

[Cynthia12]

Question for you..where are you getting your lavender Orpingtons?????????

I can have up to 6 babies in my big bin that I bought from Walmart. No smell if I use a lot of shavings in the first place, then change it about twice a week. Get the biiiggesst bin you can find, deep too.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Im getting them from a BYCer bargain.... (thats her user)

And thanks! Looks like I will have some cuties running around if they hatch!