When I cleaned the old barns, I scraped them out, power washed, then used a garden sprayer with tektol to wash every inch out. Make sure you were goggles and gloves. I also lightly tilled the soil and tektroled it too too. After all the barns were dry I gave them a soaking with malathion. We used to white wash all the walls, now I use low odor kiltz with a paint sprayer. I get it on medium thick too to seal all seams. (Huge barn, too large to paint by hand.)
Then I white wash the floors. I found a cheater way to do it. Dissolve 2 lbs of non iodine salt in 5 gallons of warm/hot water. Put the water on the floor spread out with a push broom, then sprinkle lime over it and spread it with a broom. Do small areas at a time. It will dry nice and hard as regular white wash. For the outside pens after you've tektroled the soil and it has had a day or so to sit mix: lime 3 scoops, wood ash 2-3 scoops, sulfur 1 scoop, mix, apply to the soil like you would put powdered sugar on a doughnut. Then till in. Then plant. The lime, ash and sulfur works and is what the old timers did to their soils. The tektrol sprayed on the soil is my addition. I would only put two turkeys in the barn and pen at first to make sure the soil is blackhead free. If they stay well you add them all later. If you have black head all you can do is build pens above the soil that they can walk on and their droppings can fall thru. Cathryn
Then I white wash the floors. I found a cheater way to do it. Dissolve 2 lbs of non iodine salt in 5 gallons of warm/hot water. Put the water on the floor spread out with a push broom, then sprinkle lime over it and spread it with a broom. Do small areas at a time. It will dry nice and hard as regular white wash. For the outside pens after you've tektroled the soil and it has had a day or so to sit mix: lime 3 scoops, wood ash 2-3 scoops, sulfur 1 scoop, mix, apply to the soil like you would put powdered sugar on a doughnut. Then till in. Then plant. The lime, ash and sulfur works and is what the old timers did to their soils. The tektrol sprayed on the soil is my addition. I would only put two turkeys in the barn and pen at first to make sure the soil is blackhead free. If they stay well you add them all later. If you have black head all you can do is build pens above the soil that they can walk on and their droppings can fall thru. Cathryn
From: "ropen2win@gmail.com" <ropen2win@ymail.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 2:17:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] chickens and turkeys / blackhead
I worked in a vet clinic and bleach kills about everything. We used a 20 cc syringe full of bleach for a spray bottle. Kills parvo! But they also say the use bleach when poultry get sick. I am jus not positives on turkey issues.
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