Bathing a chicken. Stinks bad!

[brandibaby23]

I think she is gonna do well with the bath, she's pretty laid back. I was writing the last post while you were writing your last post about the oil spills, sorry. lol I can't wait to bath her, shes been picked on lately it will be like a day spa treatment ha ha ..

 

[Schultz]

We use Dawn with no problems, it also gets stains out of their feathering. Our girls and buys love baths and really love blow drying (on Low of course)

 

[brandibaby23]

I just checked out my chicky and I don't see any wounds that would be smelling her mouth doesn't stink, crop feels like there is grains moving around in there. she seems normal. She just smells like dead animal. lol she did have a clutch of eggs about 3 weeks ago that didn't hatch, do you think she could be going back to the nest to check and laying on them? I never found the nest.

 

[brandibaby23]

OH!!!! I think she is molting, her tail feathers and not as long and there are are pin feathers growing everywhere after inspection, and her head looks lik pin head. LMAO!!

 

[brandibaby23]

Well I bathed her, she just sat there clucking softly, occasionally falling asleep, she really smelled and it was hard to get the smell out, now she is content in the bathroom drying and preening. Seems like she liked the bath, and the hair dryer i figured she'd hate that but didn't seem to mind it. No injuries, not sure why she smelled so bad.

 

[Soccer Mom]

If she was laying on bad eggs, maybe the smell somehow soaked into her feathers. And we all know how wonderful rotten egg smells.

 

[brandibaby23]

I'm thinking that is what it was. Because she did have a nest SOMEWHERE and after a month came back around with no babies, I wondered it she just was going back after they didn't hatch and they made her smell,because it smelled nasty like something dead.

 

[the Old Rebel]

I'd place my bet on rotten eggs or, worse, a dead chick. There's no smell in the world like that one. It's HARD to get it out of their feathers too. It has to wear off. Good luck!!.... especially if she keeps going back to it.

That's when green flies can get them too, so watch her for that, even though, as you said, it's probably getting too cold up there in PA for flies.

 

[welovechickens]

Sometimes they'll step in, or even SIT in a big glob of stinky mess, and that will make their whole body stink! I had to bring my bantam in last night for a "sponge bath", I had been gone all day and went out to check on them, and she's sitting on the roost on top of a huge glob of nasty mess! GROSS! I had to wash her feet and belly really well to get rid of the stench.

Sitting on a clutch of rotten eggs though! Whew! She's very dedicated.

 

[write2caroline]

Not to get off subject but:

besides Dawn being used for Oil cleanups, It also gets rid of fleas and ticks on dogs and cats. I even made a solution of it 2 tblespn dawn to a gal of hot water and shampooed my carpets with a carpet cleaner and it ended my flea infestation in the house and the carpets turned out nice too!

I used it on one of my chickens - it was fine.

Cal
Jax FL