How to clean after cocci? and how to cut down on chicken smell?

[Teresaann24]

What can I use to clean out a pen and coop of possible cocci in it? The pen has a floor of dirt and shavings should I completly clean the pen of all dirt and shavings? Will bleach kill it...Any advice would be great.

On the chicken smell what can I use I have been told lime will cut down on the smell??? This is in the runs and pens not the coops.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I would think bleach would kill it, or you could get oxine.

I've read on here (on a worming thread no less) that if you feed your chickens cayenne pepper in their feed, the pepper in them (or their droppings? Not sure on which) will kill the cocci germs. I would think it would be the pepper in their droppings.

I would definitely change the shavings, and do something about the dirt. Cocci lives in the dirt, and is worse when it gets wet. Get a load of river rock, top that with sand, then put shavings over that. The rock and sand helps it to drain real well, so it won't be wet, then it would be over the infected area.

Young chicks are more susceptable to cocci, adult chickens don't normally have a problem with it.

 

[shelleyd2008]

In response to your edit, rocks topped with sand will get rid of the smell, it smells worst when it is wet. Lime would help to dry it out.

 

[Thomas423]

I read in a different thread bleach will not kill cocci but amonia will.

 

[Teresaann24]

Thanks shelley i didnt think of the rocks and sand then shavings. Sounds like a good idea...THANKS!!

 

[Mahonri]

I've seen adults get it and you really have to CLOROX or OXINE roosts, nest boxes, floors walls... I have no idea how to treat the run other than perhaps Oxine.

 

[Teresaann24]

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Thanks...I don't wanna loose anymore chicks...but I have to get that pen cleaned out because it is where I keep momma and babies its my only baby proof pen I have.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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It shouldn't be too expensive, much cheaper than putting a floor in your coops. A load of rock here is about $25, a load of sand about $15.

In response to the oxine being bad for the chickens, a lot of people put oxine in the drinking water, it is perfectly safe. Much safer than bleach

Oxine is also safe to spray directly on your birds

 

[Mahonri]

Having taken NUMEROUS infection control courses over the past 22 years... BLEACH kills cocci. It kills all bacteria and almost every virus.

And BLEACH is NOT safe in the water!!!

 

[PurpleChicken]

Cocci stays alive in the soil and there isn't a way to get of all of it. Managing Cocci is all about limiting the exposure to it and letting the birds build a natural immunity or tolerance.


For the run turning the soil over several times and letting it bake in the sun will reduce the numbers of Cocci.