Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: nerdle on November 03, 2014, 18:29
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I got a message today from a retired nurse - it's a really bad idea to let hens into the house as it can cause respiratory problems.
We are a bit set in our ways now - I just love having them around and they love to come in on rainy days...
Oh dear - is she right?
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The risk is very slight IMO
It's the dust from cleaning that causes any problems..... H&S advice here.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/poultry/guide.htm
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+1 with mos.
You and your girls enjoy it, life is too short and the risk so small. Enjoy each other's company!
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Poultry has a fine dandruff like dust on them. After all the years I have spent rearing chooks and turkeys, and helping Brian pluck them, although it has made me cough at times. I've had no lasting problems, and I'm still alive and kicking.
I know the chickens have never been in the house, apart from the odd sickly ones, but I have spent many hundreds of hours in the hen houses with them.
So Like the others have said, the risk is so small in your case, just enjoy them. :) :)
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You are saying all the right things! In the right order!!!! :D :D
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Don't let people spoil your pleasure for such a silly thing Needle. How many poultry keepers do you hear of with respiratory diseases?
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How many needles make a Nerdle? :lol:
Let's hope she gets the point. ::)
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I often find mine indoors when the doors open in the summer - that's me done for then ::)
(http://i376.photobucket.com/albums/oo204/julie456/chooks/100_5511_zps31e40d83.jpg) (http://s376.photobucket.com/user/julie456/media/chooks/100_5511_zps31e40d83.jpg.html)
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That's an amazing photo.
I wouldn't fancy cleaning the mess, though!
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I have had my sickly ones in the house plus one very inquisitive one who I found upstairs in the bathroom - and yes she did a pooh up there :lol: .
I do have asthma so am a little wary but so far no problems and I've never had to use my inhaler around them.
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My living room is a lanscape of stitched together towels with a garden trellis 'fence' to corral them in. :)