official statement Managing Parasites and Waste in Your Chicken Pens
Common sycophant Problems for Backyard Chickens
Managing Parasites and Waste in Your Chicken Pens
Spend time with your hens in your chicken pens normally and be alert for changes in their behavior and appearance. Sick birds mope about and hunch their heads into their bodies, fluff out their feathers and let their tails droop. Some tasteless problems are listed below:
Internal parasites: roundworm, hairworm, caecal worm and a collection of tapeworms are the most common. Worms can be controlled whether by medication 4 times a year or by natural remedies.
External parasites: external parasites are more of a question in tropical and subtropical regions but there are a few species which may afflict chickens in cooler climates. Lice are more prevalent in the cold time of year and don't suck blood. Mites breed up in the chicken pens during the warmer months and are blood suckers.
The chickens themselves help keep pest levels down by preening each other and taking a dust bath. Dust bathing is an leading activity for chickens, therefore they need to have access to dirt in their chicken pens. By taking deterrent measures you easily shouldn't have to deal with whether internal or external parasites
How To Keep Your Chicken Pens Clean
When you have chickens, you don't get much in the way of compost because they are such good scrap eaters but the droppings more than make up for that. Manure needs to be responsibly managed or it will leach into the soil and can pollute groundwater and streams.
Except in a deep litter house, it is leading that you remove droppings from the hen house normally as part of the normal program of hygiene. About half of the droppings will be below the perch and these are the easiest to remove. If left to build up, the manure will contribute a breeding place for flies and make the hen house smell badly. The droppings should be removed about once every merge of weeks. In a deep litter house where the chickens have mixed all the material together it should only be needful to remove the litter once a year.
Manure from your chicken pens has one of the highest fertilizer values of livestock manures but is too strong to be directly applied to most plants and needs to be broken down for best results. It can be easily made into liquid fertilizer for your organery or added to the compost heap to break down.
If the manure is left to dry out, most of the nutrient value will be leached out by rain or destroyed by sunlight. Therefore it needs to be dug into the compost heap or level into the garden, but not too close to plants or it will burn them.
How To Make Liquid Fertilizer Using Manure from your Chicken Pens
* soak fresh manure in water, at about 1 part manure to 10 parts water
* keep a lid on the holder as the blend is very smelly
* one week later dilute the blend down (1:10) until it is golden in color -this can then be applied to your garden
* only apply liquid fertilizer to wet soil
* to avoid burning the leaves do not apply fertilizer directly to the plants
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