MUTINY!! My wife and son jump ship!!

[CoyoteMagic]

BYC having twins, lol

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Get some quail. Cute little buggers. They will forget how badly the chickens stunk after one day of these little buggers.

I will never, never ever brood chicks of any kind in the house

 

[horsefeathers09]

The solution is quit simple friend - if you want chicks in the house/garage there won't be any complaints if the brooder is cleaned EVERY day. It's a tedious chore but it's a small price to pay if you want to have them. I do it all the time, but I must admit keeping the chicks environment and surrounding area spotless is a never ending process. I guess the trick is to have everything set-up so that maintenance is convenient - work on that first, then get those chicks!

 

[Ibicella]

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Do quail also produce dust? I want to file that info away for the future.

 

[allieloveschickens]

I brooded chicks in the garage, I cleaned the brooder every time it started to smell at all and it worked out fine. I had cardboard walls up to keep the pine shavings in, and that helped keep the dust level down. Good luck!

 

[oesdog]

We ( DH and I ) both had chicks in the house! We used the incubator to hatch them and had it in the spare bedroom so we could be near them if they needed us. Then we screwed the humidity and temp up ( First timers etc) In the end only two chicks made it past our bad brooding! We were both so delighted. We did clean them everyday and they used to come into the office at night and sit on our laps and try to roost on the bar on our intray! ( We soooo miss that!!!!) I never noticed the dust. We did however have to move them out to the garage before our grand daughter was born and give the room a really good clean as our daughter and SIL came home to us for the first few nights - we needed it clean for their baby!

Once "our babies" were out in the garage it wasn;t so easy to be there for them every day. - we had our mind on other stuff with the other new baby and all. I did however clean them out everyday and then they moved out in to the old Rabbit hutch in the yard. One day I went out to find one was ill and they quickly ended up back inside the house!!!!!!!( Even DH complained - Traitor !!!) They were in the dining room for three weeks until the little one recovered some - the smell was terrible and I had to hide the fact they were there from my daughter who would of went mad. - we had to have Sunday dinners on the wee kitchen table and it was hard to make up reasons why we were not using the dinning room>?? Dh told her he was doing computers up in there? It was very difficult but eventually we even had to come to the conclution we had to put them back into the garage. Now they go in the rabbit hutch in the daytime and into the old brood box in the garage at night. - far too cold out for babies at night here. DH and I sooo miss their little visits into the study at night and we sooo miss them trying to ballance on the intray bar?????? - So thats it no more babies in the house I guess. ( Well maybe????)

oh yeah - I remember the dust in the Dinning room once they left home the second time!!!! - I always have the table set and I have black plates. They were thick with dust.
It never occured to me it was the chicks but I did think it odd that we had so much dust in the room?

Oesdog -

 

[awesomefowl]

My whole family has enjoyed having the Serama pair in our kitchen....they are rather messy, but we love them.

 

[Pastor Mike]

My family just received 8 chicks. What I did was go to the local big box store and purchased a bathroom fan . I place a air filter under the fan and have been filtering all the air in the box . No dust here!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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Do quail also produce dust? I want to file that info away for the future.

Yes they create dust and their poo.........................you need a gas mask!!!!

 

[CricketYang]

Well maybe they'd be more open to it if they knew it was like to raise a SINGLE duckling inside! EWWWW but awwwww at the same time.