Sanitisation

[Chickem707]

So i had a chicken which mysteriously died. I don’t know what was wrong with her, but i gave her her own food and waterer. I need these again now, so does anyone know how to properly sanitise them so it’s safe for more chickens to use them? Thanks

 

[Shadrach]

So i had a chicken which mysteriously died. I don’t know what was wrong with her, but i gave her her own food and waterer. I need these again now, so does anyone know how to properly sanitise them so it’s safe for more chickens to use them? Thanks

Bleach will kill most things. I wash suspect feeders with bleach and leave to dry in sunlight.
You do need to rinse thoroughly.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Bleach will kill most things. I wash suspect feeders with bleach and leave to dry in sunlight.
You do need to rinse thoroughly.

This is what I do too.

Lots and lots of rinsing.

 

[aart]

The sun will dissipate the bleach quickly.

 

[paneubert]

This is one of the coolest charts I have ever seen about levels of disinfection. You DONT need to go nuts and spend tons of $$$ in this case, but if you are curious about what kills what, take a look.

Bleach is "sodium hypochlorite" on that chart.

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/pdf/antimicrobial-spectrum-of-disinfectants

 

[paneubert]

To add another comment about the chart I linked to......unfortunately you might notice that it says bleach has "no activity" on coccidia...... Which if that is what your chicken died of, could be an issue. But if it was coccidia, it is all over the place. Not just on the feeder/waterer.

 

[Chickem707]

To add another comment about the chart I linked to......unfortunately you might notice that it says bleach has "no activity" on coccidia...... Which if that is what your chicken died of, could be an issue. But if it was coccidia, it is all over the place. Not just on the feeder/waterer.

I really don’t know. But I suspect egg binding. She was in a little segregated area for a while, and that is still fenced off from the other chickens just in case

 

[Chickem707]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone