spraying yard with bleach water

[dwilliams]

Will spraying the yard with bleach water do any harm to my chickens. Because the chickens eat grass and bugs from the yard?

 

[Pork Pie]

Bleach will kill essential micro-organisms in the soil. May I ask why you are planning on doing it?

 

[ChickNanny13]

I would think it will kill any vegetation in your yard.
2x Pork Pie Ken

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'll also ask why you want to spray with a bleach solution. What are you trying to accomplish, there may be a better way?

If chickens drink a bleach solution it can kill them or injure them. A lot of that depends on how strong the solution is. One way to sterilize water to make it safe to drink is to add some bleach to it, but that is a weak bleach solution. Dosage is very important. Also, over time, the bleach will evaporate, especially if you aerate it. When I wash out my water containers to kill the algae turning them green I use a fairly strong bleach solution so it will do its job. But I'm careful to do that where the chickens cannot get to it to drink it and I rinse the containers out really well before I refill them.

How much damage a bleach solution might do to your grass and other vegetation or anything (microbes to larger insects) that live in your yard will depend on how strong that solution is.

If you are trying to eliminate a specific parasite or disease, let us know which one. There is probably a better way. Spraying a bleach solution is probably not going to help anyway. If a parasite or disease is in your yard it's almost certainly in the surrounding area you won't spray. Even if you kill it in your yard it will work its way back in.

If you are doing it just as a general precaution, it's probably not going to help for long. My philosophy to raising healthy chickens is to expose them to their environment as early as possible so they can build up strong immune systems. I believe that trying to keep them in a sterile environment hurts their overall health in the long term. But since I don't know why you want to do this I can't make any specific recommendations or suggest a better way to go.

 

[lazy gardener]

Please do not spray any bleach water in your yard. It will kill all of the beneficial organisms in your yard. I have a spot in my yard that had some bleach water spilled on it, and 2 years later, it still is dead. I've been composting on that spot to try to introduce the beneficial organisms back into the soil there.

 

[dwilliams]

Bleach will kill essential micro-organisms in the soil. May I ask why you are planning on doing it?

Because my neighbor dog has parvo

 

[sourland]

Make sure your dogs are all vaccinated. Revaccination may be a good idea. Parvo may be transmitted readily through the air as well as by direct contact of infected animals and their excreta.

 

[aart]

Because my neighbor dog has parvo

Yikes!! Sure don't want your dog(s) to get that!
Not sure bleach would be the best thing to use.....ask your vet.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Definitely talk to your vet. There is a vaccination series for Parvo. It's not just one shot but a series and requires boosters.

Cleaning with a bleach solution is one of the recommendations for infected ground, but it's real easy for that disease to re-spread just from people or other animals tracking dirt that other dog has soiled into your area. At best I'd considerate bleaching a very temporary treatment. I don't blame you for bleaching at all, Parvo is a real threat, but vaccination is your best defense.

 

[Bevillf]

Bleach will kill essential micro-organisms in the soil. May I ask why you are planning on doing it?

I have a peahen to die and now a Ginnie to set and and die over night. what can I do to clean the yard and chicken house.