Bathing A Silkie Tutorial (Pic HEAVY!) - Page 3

You just have to be careful & wash the feathers from root to tip. All my chooks get bathed before a show.





I also spray mine with cologne so they smell nice.

i have a question, it was raining hard yesterday and i opened the chicken coop door just so they could get a drink or something if needed outside. but instead the all came out and stayed outside and didnt even go back into the coop until night fall. my baby chicks "who are in a seperate pen"  are WAY smarter than th older birds apparently because  they stayed inside there miniature coop. should i nt allow my birds to even think about coming outside on a rainy day? and should i give them some sort of medicine to make sure that no illnesses happen?

You don't need to give your chicken's medicine if they are NOT ALREADY SICK.

It's ok for them to be out in the rain and get wet.

They are NOT made of sugar & will NOT melt.

Do you blow dry them?

I just showed my daughter this...she's been out hunting with Dad.   She said it was boring....

L&Schickens :

Do you blow dry them?

The pics I posted were from a summer show, so I let them air dry outside. Blow drying will make a silkie extra fluffy, but do NOTHING for a hard feathered bird.

That being said, my final show is next month, & all the chooks will be blow dryed since it will be too cold outside to dry naturally.

That reminds me of when I was a kid and on rainy days a lot of kids didn't go to school/events or anything because they might get WET !  My mother used to call them "sugarplums".   We don't want to do that to our chickens, do we?