wet chicken

When keeping chickens or other poultry, bathing them is an inevitable thing. And poultry look so hilarious when they're sopping wet and no longer fluffy. So here is a thread to post your bath pics! Here are mine: BR and BLP: Absolutely hated it and flicked water all over me...

Hi everyone, My hen Ginny has had a swollen face on both sides for a few days, sometimes looking very pale. She's around 10 months old and we were assured she'd had all her vaccinations when we got her. She's had no change in diet since we got her. Recently the pen has been infested with red...

I need to soak my rooster's legs in epsom salts, but the weather is freezing outside and I don't want to leave his feather's wet. Is it possible to bring him inside for a few days and then return him to the coop? His legs have crusty 'tumors' and we've successfully soaked them off before, but...

Hi. I'm very worried about my chickens. For some reason, they decided to stay outside most of the day in this terrible rain. They are all soaking wet but I'm especially worried about my main showgirl... I just got home from a 4h meeting and went to check on them and she is alone in a nest box...

Hi All - Was very happy this morning -- after the all day rain storm we had yesterday, and all 9 chickens, soaked to the bone headed into the coop for the night, I grabbed my dehumidifier and ran a cord to the coop. After running for one hour I checked and had happy (almost dry) chickens and a...

We added Silkies to our flock this year and had winterproofed their coop by wrapping it with plastic and putting a tarp over the roof. We are having one of those bitter cold weeks with temps below 0 with the wind. I went to check on them and noticed a few of them had wet crests and when I...

My bantam brahma pullet got stuck in our AZ monsoon. The lightning stopped (finally) so I ran out, grabbed her, and brought her inside. She is currently wrapped in a towel on my lap. She is shivering, cold, wet, and muddy. And tips on keeping her warm and preventing hypothermia???