The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Kier on August 17, 2010, 12:22:24 am
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With these sunny days and sometimes wet nights the garden has begun to smell a little from the chickens/ducks.the coop and duck house r cleaned out once a week and the smell is coming from the mud itself as it is getting wet,poohed on and then warmed up in the sun.I'm confident that someone else must have this problem aswell and was interested in how they combat it???
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I think we all have the same problem from time to time.
Remove hens
Sprinkle a little Stalosan or similar over the effected area & fork it over to 2" deep
Put hens back in.
My hens are on a slabbed area just now, as i've reseeded about 75% of the grass ::)
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I fork over as deep as the fork goes, got slabs down as stepping stones to stop compacting, that generally does it. Depends how many chickens on what size space though.
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Mine are in a run much of the time, but allowed into the garden a few hours each day. The garden is big and no smell there, but the run is a bit smelly sometimes. I have tried Type 1, builders sand, ordinary earth since they destroyed the grass that was there originally - they plough everything up. Now I have a routine which works reasonably well - at least in summer. I use lots of straw in their sheds and clean that out weekly onto the run, and the old straw is raked up, and wheelbarrowed to my compost heap. I must try stalosan. I have just used Diatom for everything previously.
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Where do you get stalosan? I was told not to use straw for the chickens and ducks as it brings on mites??
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You think chickens and ducks smell - if i could bottle the turkey smell as a burglar deterrent I would - YUK!!
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Where do you get stalosan? I was told not to use straw for the chickens and ducks as it brings on mites??
Yes, I've been told that recently but so far (7 years) haven't had any *touching as many bits of wood as are near the computer*
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You think chickens and ducks smell - if i could bottle the turkey smell as a burglar deterrent I would - YUK!!
I (strangely) find the smell of turkey sweet in a weird kind of way...