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HeltsleyHen said:
Good Morning Everyone!

Couple of things we need a little advice on:

  1. Had a little bantam get into a fly strip this morning. Got her out and she is fine but her leg feathers and under one of her wings is a little sticky. Do we need to try and clean that off, if so, with what? She is out and about, eating and acting normally. I am checking periodically to make to sure nothing large is stuck to her or on her foot.
  2. We are going on vacation in October. We live close to downtown Nashville and have cats/dogs/chickens. We have someone we trust to come and watch our dogs/cats but this will be the first time we have ever vacationed since we have had the chickens. They are in a coop/run and we let them free range in their 'play yard' (fenced in area of our backyard) during the day. For the most part they are good if we let them out in the morning and just make sure they all made it back in at night. However I do check on them periodically during the day. Anyone have any tips or best practices for what to do for chickens while you are on vacation. These are our pets and we certainly don't want anything to happen to them. Our pet sitter could definitely handle the feeding/watering/collecting eggs - I just worry about them being out unsupervised all day and asking him to wrangle them in in the evening if needed. I thought maybe building a larger or temporary run onto their existing coop run so that they still have room to graze, etc without him having to 'let them out/put them up'.??????? What have you all used to do that (if you have)?

Thanks in advance for any advice/ideas/experiences you share.
P.S. Anyone have a trusted chicken sitter that you might share info for? ;-)
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I'm a pet sitter in east nashville if you need some chicken help. =)
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HeltsleyHen said:
Good Morning Everyone!

Couple of things we need a little advice on:

  1. Had a little bantam get into a fly strip this morning. Got her out and she is fine but her leg feathers and under one of her wings is a little sticky. Do we need to try and clean that off, if so, with what? She is out and about, eating and acting normally. I am checking periodically to make to sure nothing large is stuck to her or on her foot.
  2. We are going on vacation in October. We live close to downtown Nashville and have cats/dogs/chickens. We have someone we trust to come and watch our dogs/cats but this will be the first time we have ever vacationed since we have had the chickens. They are in a coop/run and we let them free range in their 'play yard' (fenced in area of our backyard) during the day. For the most part they are good if we let them out in the morning and just make sure they all made it back in at night. However I do check on them periodically during the day. Anyone have any tips or best practices for what to do for chickens while you are on vacation. These are our pets and we certainly don't want anything to happen to them. Our pet sitter could definitely handle the feeding/watering/collecting eggs - I just worry about them being out unsupervised all day and asking him to wrangle them in in the evening if needed. I thought maybe building a larger or temporary run onto their existing coop run so that they still have room to graze, etc without him having to 'let them out/put them up'.??????? What have you all used to do that (if you have)?

Thanks in advance for any advice/ideas/experiences you share.
P.S. Anyone have a trusted chicken sitter that you might share info for? ;-)
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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/689251/ - for the fly paper
 
DMRippy said:
i would put her in a dog crate with food and water and see what she does. if she sticks with it for a day or 2 giver her eggs.

I just sold some chicks to someone and they left mama with the other girls and they killed 2/3 chicks.
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Thanks for the advice! Today my bird snapped out of it, i guess robbing her eggs and pulling her out of the egg box three days in a row broke the broody. LOL.

Hope everyone comes out of the flooding ok & it dries out soon.
 

Is anyone looking to adopt a puppy? This is Rocky. He's 8 months old, neutered, dewormed, and up to date on shots. I would keep him but I already have 3 dogs. He's great with other dogs, cats, and the chickens.
 

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