Thursday, February 17, 2011

How to Care for Your Chickens When You Need to Leave for a Few Days

By Sarah Carver


Chickens are now becoming one of the favorite pets for folks all all over the world. Now we have various breeds of chicken that are accessible. Some folks grow chicken in their back yard even though some maintain two or 3 chicken as pets. Some care ought to be taken care for these Chickens so that these chickens grow in a healthy environment. When there is an urgent will need to leave these chicken for some days or if we are planning for a vacation, then there's a require to protect and take care of this Chicken in the course of our absence. Some precautions mentioned below make them easy and can supply essential steps to be taken whilst they are away from residence.

Chickens are dual utility birds which are meant for both meat and eggs. Chickens reside inside the chicken houses which are specially meant for them to feed them with water and food materials and they lay eggs with in these chicken houses. Depending upon the type of chickens the range of eggs they lay every day usually varies. Birds can lay eggs when they're healthy and active so specific precautions are to be taken to create them healthy and active. Healthy in the sense they should be maintained periodically with very good food material and water they take, should be cleaned every day and taking care that enough water is supplied to them and observe if any of the chickens in the scoop aren't healthy and if there is any chicken ill separate them from the healthy birds and contact veterinary physician for treatment for that birds. We ought to normally observe every day and need to also take some necessary precautions when we are leaving chickens for few days and going out.

Depending on the period of our vacation, we should take precautions. If we leave for a week then the things which we need to take care was to offer sufficient space, food and water. Normally depending on the breed of the chickens they usually lay 1 egg per day so fresh eggs stay unspoiled for many days with out the refrigeration. Because if they are left for 10-12 days normally hens roll down on to the eggs which results in incubation that results in to turn out to be a healthy, living chick. That is the hen which layed the egg on first day will grow to be a chick on the twelth day after incubation and in case you will need best looking eggs then rub gently with the fingers to remove the dirt or faces from the egg to ensure that the layer of bloom which is surrounded around the egg will get damaged by scrubbing so gently remove the dirt by employing fingers under warm water and wash the hands properly.

Specific precautions are to be taken while opening and closing the cloops because the chickens could be attacked by the predators. It is essential to see the cloop is closed or opened whilst we are leaving chickens for couple of days otherwise there could be an attack from the predators.

Normally in every single month we ought to change the coop simply because excessive ammonia inside the coop may lead to respiratory illness. This is usually for sanitary purposes and removes the faces and used it as a fertilizer or put in a compost bin. If it is at end of the month you generally take these steps and leave so that there will probably be no danger whilst you are away from the residence. These are the certain actions which really should be typically taken to take care of chickens when we are away from home.




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