List the most important things needed for starting a chicken house

[Whispering Winds]

I know you need the feeders and waterers and that stuff, but I mean like is there a certain medicine you might want to have on hand the day you bring the babies home . . .or some other tips that might save all of us newbies a lot of grief just because we don't have access to it when we need it. I think this might help a lot of us to have it just in one place. I know the books all can say things, but I like to hear it from the pros.

 

[chickenbottom]

i like to have wormer when ever i need it.

 

[ShaggysGirl]

I had bought corrid and blue kute to have on hand just in case. Also corn starch to stop bleeding and a pair of needle nose pliers in case of a broken blood feather.
Then I also like agricultural Lime and Diamotise earth (DE not sure how to spell it be sure to get food grade.

 

[Portia]

I keep blue kote, a bottle of tylan with a couple syringes & needles, and DE. I have found the ultimate cleaning tools for my coop (which has a hardware cloth covered droppings box under only the roosts) to be a hoe (great for scraping) and small putty knife, an empty kitty litter pan, a cheap plastic dust pan and of course a pair of good rubber gloves and a respirator. There's lots of other minor stuff, but those are the items that I access the most often.

 

[Opa]

Chickens

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Great, thanks everyone!!! When you say respirator, would face masks like hospitals wear work? I always watched on here for someone to say something about a respirator, but this is the first time I have ever seen it mentioned.

 

[DawnSuiter]

In answer to your POST TITLE...


VENTILATION

In a year and dozens and dozens of chickens (over 70 right now) we've accumulated the following:

Water soluble powder vitamins for my breeders
A kitty litter scooper & 5 gallon bucket for cleaning out the sand
feeders & waterers...
chicken coop boots

that's it.. well the construction sand everyone lives on of course...

that's really it, no medicines, no problems, no worries YET.. and I believe it's because of VENTILATION

I'm a big fan of that.

 

[~*Sweet Cheeks*~]

RED heat lamp
Wood pellets for bedding
Big brooder - lots of space because they grow fast
Lots of space and ventilation in preditor proof coop
Day time preditor proof run that's covered

No meds - no supplements in water for me either. Just fresh water and starter until just before laying, then switch to layer pellets.

Mine started laying last Wed (4 of the 8) and I'm getting 1-3 eggs a day since.