Prepping Yard

[aquilanoc]

Hello ALL! I'm wondering if there is anything we need to do to treat our yard before we allow our chicks to step foot on it. We have a large fenced in area surrounding their coop. Our dogs and wild birds always had access to this area, prior to us enclosing it. I worry what bacteria and/or disease may be currently on the ground. Is there something we could treat it with to kill any bacteria or disease?

 

[DobieLover]

Is there something we could treat it with to kill any bacteria or disease?

Sunshine.
You can't treat the yard. You really don't want to unless you KNOW there was an outbreak of some deadly avian disease on your property. Even then, there isn't much you can do.
The normally occurring bacterial colonies and microbes of the soil are not going to hurt your birds.

 

[aquilanoc]

Sunshine.
You can't treat the yard. You really don't want to unless you KNOW there was an outbreak of some deadly avian disease on your property. Even then, there isn't much you can do.
The normally occurring bacterial colonies and microbes of the soil are not going to hurt your birds.

Thank you! I'm a new chicken Mama, so I am full of worries. I cannot believe how attached to them I have become. They are almost 3 weeks old now and such sweet little babies.

 

[DobieLover]

Thank you! I'm a new chicken Mama, so I am full of worries. I cannot believe how attached to them I have become. They are almost 3 weeks old now and such sweet little babies.

I would dig up a chunk of sod from their future home and give that to them in the brooder, grass, dirt, rocks, critters and all. It help build their immunity and once they get over their terror of the foreign being you plunked down in with them, they will have a positive BLAST digging and pecking it to shreds.

 

[salshep20]

Hello ALL! I'm wondering if there is anything we need to do to treat our yard before we allow our chicks to step foot on it. We have a large fenced in area surrounding their coop. Our dogs and wild birds always had access to this area, prior to us enclosing it. I worry what bacteria and/or disease may be currently on the ground. Is there something we could treat it with to kill any bacteria or disease?

Make sure to give your chickens vitamins ever now in then as well as natural wormer in there food too! Put a little vinegar in there water! Most diseases and bacteria will have a hard time try to cause any damage to your chickens.

 

[DobieLover]

Make sure to give your chickens vitamins ever now in then as well as natural wormer in there food too! Put a little vinegar in there water! Most diseases and bacteria will have a hard time try to cause any damage to your chickens.

There is no such thing as a natural wormer.
ACV is so overrated and it is not going to help with anything unless a bird is suffering from sour crop.
It is always best to give chicks fresh water with nothing in it. Putting a little poultry vitamins in a wet mash once or twice a week as a boost is fine as is giving electrolytes in a mash or other special meal during times of extreme stress like extreme heat or cold also helps them endure.
Please don't fall for all the "wonder and miracle" additives that are touted out on the internet.

 

[salshep20]

There is no such thing as a natural wormer.
ACV is so overrated and it is not going to help with anything unless a bird is suffering from sour crop.
It is always best to give chicks fresh water with nothing in it. Putting a little poultry vitamins in a wet mash once or twice a week as a boost is fine as is giving electrolytes in a mash or other special meal during times of extreme stress like extreme heat or cold also helps them endure.
Please don't fall for all the "wonder and miracle" additives that are touted out on the internet.

Why you bully me! jk There is such thing as natural wormer!

 

[DobieLover]

Why you bully me! jk There is such thing as natural wormer! View attachment 3048007

Just because the package states it, does not make it so!
If you can provide any type of scientifically backed data that supports that this product actually eliminates or prevents internal parasites in chickens, I would be delighted to read about it and eat my words.

 

[aquilanoc]

There is no such thing as a natural wormer.
ACV is so overrated and it is not going to help with anything unless a bird is suffering from sour crop.
It is always best to give chicks fresh water with nothing in it. Putting a little poultry vitamins in a wet mash once or twice a week as a boost is fine as is giving electrolytes in a mash or other special meal during times of extreme stress like extreme heat or cold also helps them endure.
Please don't fall for all the "wonder and miracle" additives that are touted out on the internet.

I give them Rooster Booster Poultry Cell mixed in with their crumble a couple times a week and add 1 ounce to their gallon sized water container at the advice of a poultry veterinarian. We had two with Wry Neck, one did not make it, and the other has made a full recovery. However, she still gets Rooster Booster daily, and will for a little longer. This is why the veterinarian suggested the above for the rest of our flock.

 

[aquilanoc]

Make sure to give your chickens vitamins ever now in then as well as natural wormer in there food too! Put a little vinegar in there water! Most diseases and bacteria will have a hard time try to cause any damage to your chickens.

We did put raw unfiltered ACV in their water prior to using the Rooster Booster. Do you think I should add it in their water with the Rooster Booster too?