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No. You might be over complicating this situation. It is natural for chickens to be outside, in living soil, eating rocks, scratching and dust bathing. They will do this as soon as it is available.

Thanks! I have a small flock of 5 whiting true blues and 2 black copper marans pullets. Also with 14 chicks, most are Easter eggers and some are pure black copper marans. I plan to keep all the pullets from this last hatch and then in the fall I should have around 13 layers and 1 rooster.

Thanks! He’s a whiting true blue and she is a black copper marans. They’re both under a year old.

It looks like it’s a cockerel. If anybody’s interested in him, I’m in central Texas and you can have him, I wasn’t planning on keeping any of the males from this group. Check out the attitude in the video. Ever see a pullet act like that?

Here’s another partial fibro chick. Seems to be the only one with a single comb. He sorta has that mulberry color comb/earlobe. Good looking Black Cooper Maran cockerel @wrathsfarm I think he might be the only one. The others have dark or pale combs. This barred chick came labeled as a Marans...

I’m just going out on limb here. I think it will be all white. I’ve seen pics of Zombies and they are a cross of white leghorn and all black ayam cemani. They usually have some black feathers mixed with the white. This all white chick is from I believe a multi generation fibro olive egger so...

The grit isn’t for the dust bath. It is used to aid digestion. I sprinkle chick sized grit into the chick crumble at feed time. The earlier the better. Using grit improves digestion and feed efficiency. Studies prove that grit fed chicks significantly out perform control groups in growth...

Yes, I give them grit in the food from day one and then take them outside as soon as I can to run around and scratch in the living soil.

I gave my little ones supervised time to free range

“Studies show that sulfur is very effective at treating mites and has been used for a long time by commercial animal farmers to control pests. It’s even used to control pests on plants like fruit trees. If you want to go this route you can do a couple of things. One is by adding handful of...

Can you follow feathers? My wife tracked down one our pullets that a stray dog had caught and carried off. She found the bird alive and rescued it.

For a little chick, maybe just some peat/sand

Mine just go outside and find appropriate spots. If I was going to make a dust bathe in a run I would probably use a mixture of peat, sand, wood ash, diatomaceous earth and maybe sulfur.

I’m pretty sure chicks will dust bathe as soon as they are stable on their feet and have the appropriate environment to do it. I would say within the first week.

I have 3 or 4 that look a lot like this black fibro chick.

Here’s another one that I’m on the fence about. I would like for it to be a pullet, but I’m pretty sure with the red shoulders and thick legs, it’s a cockerel. It came from a large pink egg and i think dad was fibro-olive egger. It has interesting blue gray legs and looks like a bob white quail.

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Sorry to hear that. Did you happen to open up their crops? I’ve heard of chickens eating cut grass and dying because the long pieces of grass get all balled up in the crop.

Here’s a video of my whiting true blue chicks dust bathing at day 10.