Jameslutte
Hatching
- May 7, 2025
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Please help!!
Recently I discovered black mold at the bottom of my chicken feeder… will the chickens be okay?? I discovered it yesterday, and I took a good amount of it out, but I ended up leaving the feeder in the run, not wanting anything to discover it and possibly lead it to my chickens. They ended up eating from it again, and I assumed it’d be fine because they were eating what was on top and not the moldy part. They seem fine right now, I gave them fresh food. This has happened before, except with greenish blue mold, and they still seemed fine, that time the same day I removed everything and gave them fresh food. Will they be okay? Should I be worried even though they look fine? Also with the the way I have the waterers hanging, they are tied with a bendy Metal rod encased with plastic, and instead uniting the metal, I found old chick feeders and used that to put water in, and filled up the waterers in the run. I put fresh foood in them a little after, and I dried off where the food falls to, but not the actual part holding the food. Reading that mold takes 24 hours to begin growing, I decided they’d be fine until when the big feeder is fully dry. I also had to do this in another feeder in the coop because some chickens couldn’t get to the food, so I got another feeder but to save time I poured some food into that one too with drying anything ( I used to feeders to fill up the waterers). Will they be good, again they seem fine. Thanks for your help
Recently I discovered black mold at the bottom of my chicken feeder… will the chickens be okay?? I discovered it yesterday, and I took a good amount of it out, but I ended up leaving the feeder in the run, not wanting anything to discover it and possibly lead it to my chickens. They ended up eating from it again, and I assumed it’d be fine because they were eating what was on top and not the moldy part. They seem fine right now, I gave them fresh food. This has happened before, except with greenish blue mold, and they still seemed fine, that time the same day I removed everything and gave them fresh food. Will they be okay? Should I be worried even though they look fine? Also with the the way I have the waterers hanging, they are tied with a bendy Metal rod encased with plastic, and instead uniting the metal, I found old chick feeders and used that to put water in, and filled up the waterers in the run. I put fresh foood in them a little after, and I dried off where the food falls to, but not the actual part holding the food. Reading that mold takes 24 hours to begin growing, I decided they’d be fine until when the big feeder is fully dry. I also had to do this in another feeder in the coop because some chickens couldn’t get to the food, so I got another feeder but to save time I poured some food into that one too with drying anything ( I used to feeders to fill up the waterers). Will they be good, again they seem fine. Thanks for your help
