Chickens love muddy water

[gimmie birdies]

We are in mud season, chickens have nice clean beautiful water, and they chose to drink from some nasty brown puddle.

 

[Wereplatypus]

More color means more flavor I guess

 

[McChooky]

I never would have dreamed chickens liked to play in muddy water.Lol

 

[Isadora]

Haha, yeah, they don't know any better.

 

[Ridgerunner]

A couple of times I've seen chickens scratch in a clear mud puddle to muddy the water before they drink. That doesn't bother me any more than seeing them eat dirt. When they are pecking at the ground they are not just getting grit. They get minerals and such from the dirt. What I don't like is stagnant water. That can be unhealthy, whether on the ground or in their waterer.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I think they want to be clever.

 

[Happy hen lover]

Som

We are in mud season, chickens have nice clean beautiful water, and they chose to drink from some nasty brown puddle.

Something magical happens when water gets poured on dry dirty ground! Must taste like Kool Aid to them!

 

[Weetamoo93]

That's like our dogs. All the various containers of water of varying freshness, and they drink from the saucers under the potted plants or inside old tires.

 

[Folly's place]

Most critters seem to prefer to drink from puddles. More flavor, I guess.
Mary

 

[Coops Dad]

Many of ours will run past a waterer full of clean, cool water to drink out of a mud puddle in the driveway. Our back pasture has a low area that forms a shallow pond a hundred feet long after any decent rain. Quite a few chickens and all our turkeys will wade around in the water to find snails, worms and bugs driven up the grass stalks to avoid drowning. They don't seem to mind it at all.