Keeping Evacuated / Displaced Chickens in My Yard With My Chickens?

[Suzi18]

maybe you could buy an outdoor dog kennel ( might cost you a couple hundred dollars but maybe mom in law would foot the bill). Put in a couple branches for a roost and a couple tubs or boxes for them to lay in. Not the best for long term but could be done quickly and easily for this circumstance. I praise you for taking them in. You deserve a big hug and definitely earned some brownie points with your MIL.

 

[chickens really]

Once you bring them, cross contamination is a given...Under the circumstances, that would be of little concern to me....Tell Mom to bring her Birds....

 

[wyoDreamer]

I would only be concerned about the area containing contaminates for about 2 weeks after they leave. I believe that is the standard quarantine period for bringing new chickens into a flock anyway.
Just make sure to clean up as much poo and litter as you can. I would flush the area really good to break down any remaining poo. We have a torch, so I would do a quick torch of the grass surfaces. The grass will grow back.
Anything solid that they used could be sprayed with a bleach solution to disinfect it.
Bless your heart for bringing them in!

 

[RowanTheRed]

I would only be concerned about the area containing contaminates for about 2 weeks after they leave. I believe that is the standard quarantine period for bringing new chickens into a flock anyway.
Just make sure to clean up as much poo and litter as you can. I would flush the area really good to break down any remaining poo. We have a torch, so I would do a quick torch of the grass surfaces. The grass will grow back.
Anything solid that they used could be sprayed with a bleach solution to disinfect it.
Bless your heart for bringing them in!

this is the information I was looking for! I was thinking along the lines of 30 days, but that was just an "un"educated guess. I was just uncertain if there was anything they could bring that lives a relly long time in the soil like parvo does for dogs!

If you have a garage id put their chickens in there on shavings or hay. And try not to cross contaminate between the two flocks.

oh I have a garage, but it is so packed with SO's stuff that I can barely walk through just to get to the spare fridge out there! This however, is a great reason for him to have to clean out all the junk that he seems to collect lol

maybe you could buy an outdoor dog kennel ( might cost you a couple hundred dollars but maybe mom in law would foot the bill). Put in a couple branches for a roost and a couple tubs or boxes for them to lay in. Not the best for long term but could be done quickly and easily for this circumstance. I praise you for taking them in. You deserve a big hug and definitely earned some brownie points with your MIL.

this is pretty much what I had in mind. Our chickens' run is based out of a modular dog kennel that we put up beside their coop / house. So If I get the same set up I can use it later to extend the run we already have

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Have SO clean out a large enough Rea in the garage to keep her girls in.Have a small dog run panels?Set those up, put shavings down, feed bowl and water bowl, and some place to roost and your set.Good luck

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I like the garage idea best if leaving them is not an option, that and let MIL take care of them and you take care of yours, no co-mingling. Good luck

I have been giving this some thought, if had to evacuate and there was a good chance the flock would die if left behind I would consider culling them. If there was a good chance they would not burn I would leave them secured and hope for the best. In my circumstances I just cannot see being able to take them with me.

Gary

 

[bucky52]

I need some advice from all of the senior chicken keepers here. My SO's parents are in central Florida and in the potential edges (or path if it changes course) of hurricane Irma. They have never evacuated for a hurricane before so are very hesitant to do so now. But if it gets bad there they are in their 70s and in not really in shape to deal with attempting a late evacuation or to ride it out and pick up the pieces on their own. I have offered them to come up to our place in the upstate of SC. I know his mom is hesitant because she won't want to leave her chickens. I think she currently has around a dozen of them. I don't mind them bring the chickens as well if they have to, but I need advice as to how to house them in our backyard with our own 8 chickens. Her chickens are healthy, but being from a different area I am worried about the potential of them bringing along something that they are immune to but mine wouldn't be. We can easily rig up a run with some sort of shelter for them if need be, but what about when they leave, would that area be potentially hazardous to my chickens that free range my back yard during the day?

 

[El-kevo]

We just rode out Harvey... 115mph winds and 50.89" of rain according to my backyard weatherstation, terrible stuff. Florida is on the "clean" side of this storm, as far as anyone can tell now. Chickens have survived for hundreds of millions of years without human help. They are remarkably smart and I was surprised to see them instinctively find a low covering that protected them. They had never even seen a storm before...I let them free range in the yard in case the water came up from the bayou... Even when it did, they were safe and moved accordingly. Only lost one chicken and that was due to injury after a waterlogged tree fell (roots and all came up) and happened to crush and dam near amputate her leg. My point is from one storm to another, the chickens will be "ok". Your parents need to get out before gas becomes scarce and decide to come up to the foothills or not. All this said with love, not being mean.