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Practice Hygiene and Environmental Control

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Raising your own food..So what's next? Helpful tips for your new baby birds!!

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It is critical to wash hands thoroughly after handling chicks, as they naturally carry salmonella in their gut, which can cause illness in humans. Children especially should be educated about this risk and avoid putting hands near their faces after touching birds. Additionally, monitor the brooder's temperature; if chicks are panting ('huh huh huh'), it indicates overheating and immediate cooling measures (like a fan pointed at them) are necessary to prevent heat stress and potential fatalities, particularly in hot weather conditions like those experienced in the garage where the brooder is housed.

Goal: Prioritize human hygiene by washing hands after handling chicks due to salmonella risk, and ensure proper brooder temperature control to prevent overheating.

Tools and materials

  • Fan
  • Soap and Water

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involved I want to talk to you a little bit about what you need to do so with the chicks comes this little handbook or a little guide to washing your hands guys chickens are cute they're sweet they're lovable they're full of Salmonella it's naturally occurring in their gut and it will make you sick be sure you're not caressing these chickens by your face and be sure you're washing your hands and taking care of yourself Salmonella will make your sick guys be sure if you have children to make them understand that they'll get really really sick if they pet these birds and they eat something these birds have poop on them bottom line they have poop on them they will have poop on them from the time that you get them until the time that they're gone now before we go pouring through it in here we need to think about cleaning the coop okay so the coop is full of poop the coop is full of poop and we got to put some of your shavings in there and we don't need to clean out the entire brooder every day to put new shavings in let me show you what we do so we remove our feeder

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