Bathing Chickens?

[Kotiya]

Do you do anything special to get your chickens clean? When our Cornish Rock X were intended for a 4-H project, we were prepping them by giving them a bath when they were really nasty. Long story...short version..No longer gonna be shown as 4-h project in fair. I was late with paperwork.

Anyways, Do you bathe your birds? Mine didn't like it. I don't know if its needed, but they sure look gorgeous when clean.

 

[pipermark]

only for shows.

 

[jaku]

Yes, at 143 degrees for about 30 seconds. They don't like it at all, but they come out clean as a whistle!

 

[17roses]

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[Chicks R Friends NOT Food]

I bathed my turkeys in my tub because they were nasty when I first got them. They stunk and felt like velcro. We have one of those detachable showerheads and it reaches almost to the bottom of the tub, they got a nice shower rinse. One actually loved it.

 

[jaku]

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Please, please tell me that you're talking about a washtub in your garage, and that this didn't happen in your actual bathtub...

 

[Attack Chicken]

Only for shows here. Gotta bath 19 in a couple weeks.....What fun!

 

[abbey2140]

We use Quic Silver Horse shampoo on the white meat chickens, works like a charm. I can honestly say you are not alone in the home bathtub. We have since bought plastic totes, one of soaking, one for letting the shampoo work for 5 minutes and another to rinse. It's a real assembly line process for those pesky dirty 4H birds but it works.