Thank you to all who replied to my post! :)
She never had any problem with head/water thing. Her hind feathers have been clean and fluffy since I gave her a bath.
Now I have another problem. One of my four second year hens has been looking like she's molting. I thought/think it's odd...
I have done that with other birds, and it seems to work fine. Forgot to mention the reason I gave her the bath is that she was sitting in the coop next to the waterer. She didn't try to run when I went to pick her up. I put her down on my lawn and she stood up a bit better and immediately...
She is an adult, about 4.5 yo. As I said, I knew I had too much water in the tubs, but did it anyway, mostly because of the temp here (I get heat exhaustion very quickly) and the fact that I have a compression fractured disc, fractured rib, torn cartilage between 4 discs...in short, I was in a...
It's hot here, and I needed to bathe a poopy-butt girl. I have bathed chickens 3 times before, but this time I had too much water in the tubs. I thought it would be ok, but she carried on so in the water that her face, eyes, and ears may have gotten wet! I checked her, and she didn't seem to...