Chooks & Flooding?

[julesapple]

Any suggestions as to what can be done for chooks if we get flooding? We're pretty soggy but a long way from disaster, I just thought more experienced chook folk would have good advice they might like to share?

[Nicos]

I wonder if you can contact your RSPB and ask if they can advise you of a holding area near you.( usually used for injured birds)
I'd have thought there would be some sort of 'emergency plan' and if not, you may prompt them into initiating one????

[rustylady]

How many have you got Jules?

[julesapple]

We've got 13 girls. Their part of the garden is pretty soggy, but not flooded. They've got bales and logs to perch on, up out of the wet. The henhouse and the pathway to it are dry, so they can beat a retreat if necessary.

The DD has a friend who can take our girls if we do get flooded - they live on a hill so no danger of their land flooding.

I just wondered what to do if anyone did get flooded out.

[rustylady]

Hope you will be OK and won't get any wetter.

[Nicos]

Good to see you have a back up plan!

Good luck with the flooding ( ie lack of).

[petal]

create a sink hole, dig a deep pit and fill with rubble to aid drainage in their pen. Put a couple of bales of straw in there for them to hop onto if it gets bad.

[Peas'n'Kews]

Now in Mid Devon, where we have inherited 7 hens, one cockerel and 5 Indian Runner ducks. We have 500 feet of river frontage on the Batherm, we watched the flood creep across the meadow and stop just 1/4" off the top our back step.

The chooks (and ducks - who were in heaven!) got soggy but as their coop is at the same level as the house, the flood stopped before the coop got wet.

Very harrowing! Went down as fast as it came up....

River frontage seemed such a fantastic idea when the OH was planning all the fishing he was going to do! Everyone tells us it hasn't been this bad for 10 years.

Welcome to Devon!!!