Well since the babies are staying inside my home and the bigger babies are pooping WAY too much so the smell is getting pretty bad I decided to try the granulated garlic on them today. I figured like with the adult birds it would take at least a couple of weeks to see if it was doing anything for the odor.
I put the garlic in their food at Noon and then left for the afternoon doing some CL's pick ups and monthly pet food shopping. I got back home around 5:30 p.m., opened my bathroom door and was knocked over by a Titanic wave of warm, moist, garlic smell. I thought I had just poured raw super fresh garlic all over myself and I could not catch my breath quick enough to be able to inhale anything but pure heavy garlic. If I had of been a vampire I would have instantly imploded.
There are 34 Baby chicks in a 6X10 enclosed area with two 250w heat lamps set at 83 and 95 degrees at all times. The last vent in the house from the furnace is in this bathroom so for some reason the furnace blows way more heat in that room than any other room in the house, so add that hot air on top of the heat lamps along with it being a bathroom so there is a lot of moisture in there so you have this pretty thick humidity thing going on in there too. Now add all of the wonderful baby poop in with the mix and by 2 am in the morning you do not even want to go in there to check on them to make sure they are ok because you know when you open that door you are going to get knocked over with that hot, humid, chicken poop smell.
I clean everything out and wash everything down every day and half of the babies spend the majority of the late morning, early afternoon outside now so my house and bathroom gets some what of an airing out every day but as you all know, as soon as nighttime hits it is like giving a Fleet Enema to a 6 month old baby to our chickens, insane amounts everywhere. Very Ripe in that bathroom at times.
Anyway, just in case anyone was wondering if the garlic would change the smell of their poop, it no longer smells of chicken excrement in my bathroom but it does smell like a strong stewed garlic bulb.
I am going to assume that since the bigger chickens are outside the overwhelming garlic smell will not be anywhere as strong. If you are having problems with neighbours complaining about the smell from your chicken run give them a good whiff of garlic and see which they prefer. hehe
I put the garlic in their food at Noon and then left for the afternoon doing some CL's pick ups and monthly pet food shopping. I got back home around 5:30 p.m., opened my bathroom door and was knocked over by a Titanic wave of warm, moist, garlic smell. I thought I had just poured raw super fresh garlic all over myself and I could not catch my breath quick enough to be able to inhale anything but pure heavy garlic. If I had of been a vampire I would have instantly imploded.
There are 34 Baby chicks in a 6X10 enclosed area with two 250w heat lamps set at 83 and 95 degrees at all times. The last vent in the house from the furnace is in this bathroom so for some reason the furnace blows way more heat in that room than any other room in the house, so add that hot air on top of the heat lamps along with it being a bathroom so there is a lot of moisture in there so you have this pretty thick humidity thing going on in there too. Now add all of the wonderful baby poop in with the mix and by 2 am in the morning you do not even want to go in there to check on them to make sure they are ok because you know when you open that door you are going to get knocked over with that hot, humid, chicken poop smell.
I clean everything out and wash everything down every day and half of the babies spend the majority of the late morning, early afternoon outside now so my house and bathroom gets some what of an airing out every day but as you all know, as soon as nighttime hits it is like giving a Fleet Enema to a 6 month old baby to our chickens, insane amounts everywhere. Very Ripe in that bathroom at times.
Anyway, just in case anyone was wondering if the garlic would change the smell of their poop, it no longer smells of chicken excrement in my bathroom but it does smell like a strong stewed garlic bulb.
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