LivingCanvas
In the Brooder
If you start seeing stools that look like this...Nope, zero bloody stool. ...then you probably have a problem.
Chicks and Dust Baths?
- Thread starter WildCochinReba
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ChickenMammX4
Songster
Chicks and full grown chickens love dust bathing! We use a mixture of wood ash and peat moss. Sand or dry dirt can be mixed in or used.
Here are two of my black sex links bathing in wood ash when they were young.
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- Apr 30, 2016
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Aw! So cute!Chicks and full grown chickens love dust bathing! We use a mixture of wood ash and peat moss. Sand or dry dirt can be mixed in or used.
Here are two of my black sex links bathing in wood ash when they were young.
jengui
Hatching
- May 31, 2016
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I have 3 8 week old chicks there are piles of dirt and sand in yard as well as sand with diatomaceous earth in their coop but I keep seeing them bathing in the grass. I've tried putting them in the sand and they quickly run out of it.
I did some spring cleaning and moved my dust bath from behind the run to into the run. The girls left it alone for about a week before they started using it again. Chickens just don't like change.
They enjoy dust bathing in warm sunlit locations...
They enjoy dust bathing in warm sunlit locations...
Glad I found this thread! One of our chicks had burrowed itself into a crater in the brooder bedding a few minutes ago. Guess she was taking a dust bath! Is it "ok" for the others to "pick" the bedding dust off the others feathers? I doubt they were hurting the dust bather....she was just sitting there letting them do it, before she finally got up and ran around. So I guess that is normal?
Mike
Mike
For my birds that would be perfectly normal behavior.
Dust-bathing they are so fun to watch when they dust bath....LOL
Dust-bathing they are so fun to watch when they dust bath....LOL
Indie-Chick
Hatching
- Apr 18, 2017
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Can I put a bowl of sand for dust bath/grit for my one week old chicks, or is it too early?
My chicks are on sand from the time they hatch or arrive from the hatchery. They use the sand to dirt bathe in by the time they reach one week old, and they use it for grit right from the time they start to eat food. Never had any problems.
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