How to Prepare your Chicken for the Show!
Summary:
This article will cover everything from bathing your birds, to tips and tricks to make them look their best! Keep reading if you want to know safe ways of getting your birds clean! First I'll cover baths for chicks and young birds who you are not showing. Then I'll give you all the instructions for preparing your adult birds for show!
How to Bathe Your Chicks
One day to six weeks (or until fully feathered)
Supplies:
For these young chicks, the one thing you DO NOT want to do is submerge them in water. There should be no reason to bathe chicks this young. However, if you do, do it gently. Get a washcloth and put warm water on it. Add a little dawn. Make certain that this washcloth is damp, not wet. Wipe your chick, but only where he or she is dirty. Your goal, if you have to wash a chick, is to keep them as dry as possible. So, just wipe down their dirty areas. Take your other washcloth and dry any areas that you got wet. Don't use a blowdryer or any other heat source as chicks do not need the direct heat or hot air on their small fragile bodies.
How To Bathe Your Young Chickens
Six to eighteen weeks or until mature and at full body size.
Supplies:
For this age group it is not as important that they do not get wet, especially toward the end of the age group. However, for minor spills and accidents, I still suggest using a washcloth. Do the same thing you do for chicks, wet the washcloth with warm water and Dawn. IF your bird is really nasty or you feel that it is in severe need of a good bath you can fill up two buckets, big enough for your bird to fit in, with warm water. Put Dawn in one. Gently place your bird in the water, and make sure that their head stays above the water. Take a washcloth or your hands and gently wash the bird. One you feel that your bird is washed, move them over to the bucket of plain water. Rinse them then move them over to a towel. Wrap them in a chicken burrito (Put your Chicken in middle and put sides over or put chicken on one end and roll) and dry them as good as you can. If needed, blow dry on the lowest setting.
How to prepare your washcloth:
1. Get a dry washcloth and warm water. Run your washcloth under warm water.
2. Add Dawn Dish soap.
Then suds it up, and squeeze or wring until damp.
How To Bathe And Prepare Your Adult Birds For A Show
Eighteen plus weeks
Supplies:
Bathing
To give your bird a bath is not as hard or scary as some people think. These are the simple steps of bathing your adult bird.
Step 1: Prepare your buckets
TO ANYONE WHO READ THIS, IT IS NOT FINISHED. I MEANT TO SAVE, NOT PUBLISH.
Summary:
This article will cover everything from bathing your birds, to tips and tricks to make them look their best! Keep reading if you want to know safe ways of getting your birds clean! First I'll cover baths for chicks and young birds who you are not showing. Then I'll give you all the instructions for preparing your adult birds for show!
How to Bathe Your Chicks
One day to six weeks (or until fully feathered)
Supplies:
- Two Washcloths
- Warm water
- Dawn dish soap
For these young chicks, the one thing you DO NOT want to do is submerge them in water. There should be no reason to bathe chicks this young. However, if you do, do it gently. Get a washcloth and put warm water on it. Add a little dawn. Make certain that this washcloth is damp, not wet. Wipe your chick, but only where he or she is dirty. Your goal, if you have to wash a chick, is to keep them as dry as possible. So, just wipe down their dirty areas. Take your other washcloth and dry any areas that you got wet. Don't use a blowdryer or any other heat source as chicks do not need the direct heat or hot air on their small fragile bodies.
How To Bathe Your Young Chickens
Six to eighteen weeks or until mature and at full body size.
Supplies:
- Washcloth
- Warm Water
- Dawn
- Towel to dry (Size depends on bird)
- Toothbrush (if needed)
- Two buckets big enough to fit your bird (For older birds if needed)
- Blowdryer (Optional)
For this age group it is not as important that they do not get wet, especially toward the end of the age group. However, for minor spills and accidents, I still suggest using a washcloth. Do the same thing you do for chicks, wet the washcloth with warm water and Dawn. IF your bird is really nasty or you feel that it is in severe need of a good bath you can fill up two buckets, big enough for your bird to fit in, with warm water. Put Dawn in one. Gently place your bird in the water, and make sure that their head stays above the water. Take a washcloth or your hands and gently wash the bird. One you feel that your bird is washed, move them over to the bucket of plain water. Rinse them then move them over to a towel. Wrap them in a chicken burrito (Put your Chicken in middle and put sides over or put chicken on one end and roll) and dry them as good as you can. If needed, blow dry on the lowest setting.
How to prepare your washcloth:
1. Get a dry washcloth and warm water. Run your washcloth under warm water.
2. Add Dawn Dish soap.
Then suds it up, and squeeze or wring until damp.
How To Bathe And Prepare Your Adult Birds For A Show
Eighteen plus weeks
Supplies:
- Three buckets (the third is for whitening, so optional) that are big enough to fit your Chicken.
- Warm Water
- Dawn
- Soft Bath Sponge
- Bath Towel
- Two Toothbrushes
- Small Cup (Optional)
- Blowdryer (Optional)
- Dog or Cat Nail Clippers (Optional)
- Whitening Shampoo (For White Birds)
- Vaseline or Baby Oil
Bathing
To give your bird a bath is not as hard or scary as some people think. These are the simple steps of bathing your adult bird.
Step 1: Prepare your buckets
TO ANYONE WHO READ THIS, IT IS NOT FINISHED. I MEANT TO SAVE, NOT PUBLISH.
