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Posted By EricR
A children's nursery is wanting to keep chickens, apart from the obvious hygiene risks and remote risk of avian flu, can anyone advise what sort of hazards need to be assessed please?
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Posted By Lilian McCartney
Do they mean fluffy yellow chicks or is it hens?
I have heard of fluffy yellow chicks being in nurseries but a long time ago.
Do they know how to keep these?
Hens and chicks are farm animals and not pets, though chicks do stay in for the first part of their lives and I can see why they would want them.
Chicks are probably easier to keep/clean their cage etc.
Either way it's the cage clening bit that will require procedures and PPE for. If hens, feather and dust etc are a greater problem than for the little chicks.
Maybe someone out there knows how to keep these.
Lilian
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Posted By EricR
These will be hens and will be kept as farm animals in a run and coop wih high fencing. This nursery has kept ducks before but not hens.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Generally speaking if you have previously kept ducks then the move to hens is not that great. However hens are great scratchers and the run will soon lose any grass. Also you will find that some youngsters find the sight of hens eating a fat slug rather distressing. Bantams may be a better bet as they tend to be more easily controlled and are more suited in size to young children. You can then use the mobile bantam houses as these provide a great deal of security for the fowl from unwanted hands.
There must be a local poultry group near you, so why not look them out.
Bob
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Posted By Garry Mcglaid
Vermin, rats and the like are attracted to chicken runs. A family member kept them until the rats visits just got too much.
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Posted By J Knight
Get the eggs tested for salmonella at the recommended intervals (off the top of my head its annual),
John
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Posted By Chas I suggest you have a look at www.omlet.co.uk for some ideas and advice. Also if you know anyone in the working in the field of education (excuse the pun) ask them if CLEAPSS has any advice. I know they once produced a document regarding the hatching and incubation of chicks that also included some advice on the rearing of adult birds.
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