Chicken Dust Bath

[Capto Veritas]

Is the current chicken the black australorp? Yes, you can mix breeds if that’s what your asking. (I have a flock of 13 chickens, all different breeds)

Yes, but my chicken is currently 2 months. The hen would be 8 months.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Yes, but my chicken is currently 2 months. The hen would be 8 months.

So the chick is 8 weeks... and then a full grown hen... you can probably integrate them, but it might take a while. I’m not an expert with integration though. Sometimes it will go smoothly, sometimes not. But since the chick is fully feather by now, it may work.

What you might want to do is the “see but not touch” method for a little bit, maybe a few days. Then you would want to probably free range them together, and see how they do. Be ready to step in though. Then you could possibly put them together at night if all had gone well, and then they would be fully integrated.

Another option is just putting them together at night, but I have not done this one before.

 

[Capto Veritas]

So the chick is 8 weeks... and then a full grown hen... you can probably integrate them, but it might take a while. I’m not an expert with integration though. Sometimes it will go smoothly, sometimes not. But since the chick is fully feather by now, it may work.

What you might want to do is the “see but not touch” method for a little bit, maybe a few days. Then you would want to probably free range them together, and see how they do. Be ready to step in though. Then you could possibly put them together at night if all had gone well, and then they would be fully integrated.

Another option is just putting them together at night, but I have not done this one before.

I might let them get used to each other using the “see not touch method“ and them let them out at night. I think that will work.

 

[Capto Veritas]

Lol. My dust bath is completely gone now. She dust bathed the dust out of it!

 

[neo71665]

Yep there is more of the stuff surrounding my bath than I can actually fit in the bath.

 

[Capto Veritas]

Lol. That diatomaceous earth will go fast!

 

[neo71665]

I use river sand mixed with wood ash. Get both free and I'm cheap so the price is right.

 

[Capto Veritas]

Cool. I my try that, I have a creek 50 feet from my house.

 

[Capto Veritas]

*might

 

[neo71665]

Yeah I get mine out of the river near the house. Burn wood in my shop in the winter.