Anyone know how to keep silkies clean?

[Teresaann24]

Without having to bath them everyday?LOL

I dont know what it is about my girls they find the muddiest wettest place and always seem to have dirty crests and dirty feet.

When I see them strutting around with mudded crest i tell them they look like homeless chickens..LOL Of coures they do not care.

I have tried to cover there muddy bathing spots with pine shavings that lasts about a day and they dig them back up. We are having a nasty rainy start to april and its so muddy around here and they are LOVING it.

Any suggestions?

 

[antiquebuff]

Oh, its easy, just keep the little darlings in the middle of your bed for a lovely decoration!

We do love our Silkies!

 

[Teresaann24]

LOL, I guess that would be the only way to keep them clean.

It just drives me nutty when I have company and they say whats wrong with your chickens?LOL

I loves my dirty silkies I always say to them...LOL

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

My Silkies are kept on pine shavings at all times, that I change once every two to three weeks.

And unless you keep them cooped and penned on pine shavings, any chicken is going to get dirty. Its their nature.

 

[columbiacritter]

I have a white cochin roo who frequently looks like a used muddy sweat sock. I will never ever ever get a white chicken or a feather foot by choice as long as I'm living in the soggy Pacific NW.

He wasn't my choice, he was a mcmurray freebie.

 

[vermontgal]

my related question is - which color of silkie is best for not showing the dirt? Mine will not be getting anywhere near my bed, so simply keeping the dirt from showing too badly will fix it for me -- I have the same approach to my kitchen floors!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

None really... White is self explanatory, black might disguise the mudd a BIT but it is still noticeable, blues just look wet... Maybe partridge or that "calico" color only available from a mixed color chick?

 

[Teresaann24]

In my white silkies 1 of my pullets she is always clean never a bit of dirt on her. I have an older hen she is ALWAYS dirty some place. I have a gray hen who keeps a dirty crest 4 out of 7 days a week..LOL I have a black hen who keeps a dirty crest all the time. I take out a baby wipe and clean her and I give it hours and she is the same way again.

Now my roos? Always clean and neat little guys.