Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Rozlynmac on April 21, 2009, 16:11
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It looks like I should be able to get some chickens in June. I'll be bringing them home from England, with an hour long flight at the end of the journey. The airline advice is that any pet carrier should have food & water accessible from outside the carrier, but for the sake of an hour long flight, I thought it would be easier to take the food/water away from them for that time, and try to keep them dark so they hopefully sleep.
Any advice from anyone who's flown chickens would be helpful.
Also, I'm getting 1 hen & 2 6-week old's (not related), can I put the 3 in one carrier together, or should I put the hen in 1 & the wee-ones in another?
Thank you again.
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Can I just make a small suggestion. You change your subject to something like "Transporting Chickens by Aeroplane" You may get some better advice, I thought you where going to ask about clipping wings.
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Good point!
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Oh the visual pictures :lol:
But it will certainly get noticed.
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It looks like I should be able to get some chickens in June. I'll be bringing them home from England, with an hour long flight at the end of the journey. The airline advice is that any pet carrier should have food & water accessible from outside the carrier, but for the sake of an hour long flight, I thought it would be easier to take the food/water away from them for that time, and try to keep them dark so they hopefully sleep.
Any advice from anyone who's flown chickens would be helpful.
Also, I'm getting 1 hen & 2 6-week old's (not related), can I put the 3 in one carrier together, or should I put the hen in 1 & the wee-ones in another?
Thank you again.
I've flown birds (canaries and young and adult geese) and I've found it best if they are
all caged together. I'd advise giving water (from a "push indripper," the type that little rodents drink from), because if there are any delays, food isn't a problem, but you don't want them to dehydrade, which they can do very quickly with the heat of the hold and stress.
Hope this helps
Valerie
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i've never flown them, but i have taken some in a car - normally if they go on journeys, they don't eat or drink for the time they travel (maybe they get car-sick? :unsure: )
I would be inclined to suggest you to take that course for the aeroplane journey too.
The worry is they would make a gigantic mess and not take anything anyway!
maybe if you put something cold in, like some wet fruit, then if they need to drink somthing, they can drink at that.
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i've never flown them, but i have taken some in a car - normally if they go on journeys, they don't eat or drink for the time they travel (maybe they get car-sick? :unsure: )
Crumb the goose ate in the car when we went on our day trip to Derbyshire :D
Sarah:D
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hhhhmmmmm, curiouser and curiouser.
our hens drank a bit, but only because they were hot. and even then it was a couple of drops on the finger and then they didn't want any more.
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when I transport birds I usually put only one bird to a box -or a pair if they are familiar with each other.
woodshavings to stop them slipping and I also pop tinned sweetcorn/grapes to help keep them hydrated.
A dark box is a good idea,I expect they will probably sleep! :)
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When I took chicks up to Anna and Munty by train. Munty said to put a sponge in a margarine tub or similar, then fill with water, so most of the water was in the sponge. when they were thirsty, the chicks just stuck their beaks into the wet sponge. As I had them on my lap, I also had a top up bottle. But there wasn't loads of water in the box
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I like the idea of the sponge or the sweetcorn. That gives me some ideas for keeping them fed/hydrated.
Thank you all.
Now I just need to decide if the carboard carriers that you get are sturdy enough for the flight or if I need to buy some sort of plastic carrier. :unsure:
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I drove through Doncaster with a Duck looking over my shoulder. Did worry about getting pulled over by the police.
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They would have probably thought you where quackers.