What do you do when your on vacation?

[cheer10]

Hi! What do you with your chickens when you're on vacation on for 1 month? Do you keep them in your coop or do you give them to a farm and after you're vacation pick them up or what-so-ever?

 

[StinkyAcres]

We've never been gone for that long, but we have a trusted neighbor take care of them at our house. I would be afraid my chickens would pick up diseases if I dropped them off at a farm.

 

[cheer10]

We've never been gone for that long, but we have a trusted neighbor take care of them at our house. I would be afraid my chickens would pick up diseases if I dropped them off at a farm.

Oh ok. I see.

 

[SilverBirds]

I have someone come and check eggs once a day. My feeders only need to be refilled once a week but I'm almost never gone that long.

 

[citymeetscountry]

We’ve never been gone that long. The longest we’ve left them is 1 week (Sat-Sat). When we were gone that amount of time I flew in a friend from another state to house sit (but we also have a puppy, cats, ducks, and goats in addition to the chickens). Typically when we leave 2-5 days we have the teenage neighbor come and care for them in the morning (feed/let out/) and evening (collect eggs, put feed away, and lock up for the night)

 

[cheer10]

We’ve never been gone that long. The longest we’ve left them is 1 week (Sat-Sat). When we were gone that amount of time I flew in a friend from another state to house sit (but we also have a puppy, cats, ducks, and goats in addition to the chickens). Typically when we leave 2-5 days we have the teenage neighbor come and care for them in the morning (feed/let out/) and evening (collect eggs, put feed away, and lock up for the night)

Oh ok, thanks for the reply.

 

[cheer10]

I have someone come and check eggs once a day. My feeders only need to be refilled once a week but I'm almost never gone that long.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[3KillerBs]

Moving your chickens to another location to be cared for is a bad idea both because it breaks biosecurity and because chickens HATE change and stressed chickens are prone to illness and behavior upsets.

DH and I just took a 5-day vacation. Our middle and younger son were home and the 16yo cared for both the chickens in the coop and the eggs in the incubator very well.

If all of us left town at the same time we'd get our oldest son, who lives within a reasonable distance, to come up and care for them every other day or so or enlist DH's sister down the street if she weren't off traveling herself.

 

[BDutch]

My max. was 3 weeks. One year my doughter came over to stay in our house for 2 weeks and a neighbour cared for the chickens the other week.
In other years a neighbour or 2 different neighbours cared for our chickens. There is always someone in our neighbourhood who can check/feed the chickens twice a day.

Because we have a auto-pop-door between the coop and the larger run the chickens aren’t locked up for a long time in the morning. It closes automatically again after they have roosted to keep them safe for the night.
Keeping a little feed and enough water in a small attached run with 10mm hwc is possible withouth having to deal with mice or rats.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Chicken people don't get vacation.

Hubby and I are about to take our first vacation together in about 7 years... we normally travel and do everything separately.