Will cigarette smoke smell hurt newly hatched chick

[muddstopper]

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I dont know if they are full or not, but their eyes are brown.

 

[Tala]

I've had worse hatches since we started smoking in the house. However, I'm pretty sure the fault was more with the eggs that I set (some old, and one hen seems to simply be infertile) but ya never know. We mainly smoke in the computer room, which is where the bator is.....

 

[gryeyes]

I don't think the SMELL of smoke will bother newly hatched chicks at all, she said, taking another deep draw.











I don't smoke in the bathroom "nursery" where I keep the hatchlings for a while, nor do I smoke in the guest room "Incubator Room," but I do smoke in my house. And outside. I had always put my "smoking outside" butts out in a can of water by the fish ponds until one day I saw one of my chickens drinking from that can. Ewwwww! But she's still alive and that was MONTHS ago.

Now, when outside, I put my extinguished cigarette butts down inside an upright chain link fence post.

 

[Junkmanme]

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I dont know if they are full or not, but their eyes are brown.

 

[dmiravalle]

White vinegar should work! As for second hand smoke in birds, I know for parrots, that second hand smoke can cause respitory problems and birds can get addicted to the smoke. Sorry my spelling is terrible!

 

[Pequena Bandada]

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I'm confused... why wouldn't you believe them? There is credible science behind the dangers of third-hand smoke. Certainly, no one's saying that if you breathe in the smell from a smoky incubator, you'll drop dead of cancer immediately... but that smoke smell is made up of the same chemicals that cause problems for smokers. And baby chicks have tiny developing lungs, so they don't have a huge capacity for toxic chemicals anyway.

All that said, I guess I don't understand why it would be incredible that the Surgeon General or the FDA puts out an advisory for humans (yeah - it would be weird for them to put out an advisory for chickens

).