Giving Chickens Baths.. How? and How often?

[clairabean]

Actually mine look the same- EE! Their personalities are amazing. I am forever asking what breeds are what. And I am slowly learning. Slowly.

Missy is back.... Front Missy is lighter.

 

[Rileysixchix]

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Haha!! it took me a while to learn them all too! and now i see these posts with birds I've never even heard of!

LoL!

Your birds are beautiful! how old are they?

 

[clairabean]

Thay are approx 3 years old. Still laying!

 

[Rileysixchix]

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WOW! good for them! and for you!! Mine are only 8 months old! got them for my birthday in march!

 

[Breac]

Chickens usually don't need baths. Unless you are preparing them for show or if they are so filthy it would affect their well-being, chickens do not need baths. My two major exceptions were my little white silkie hen, Powderpuff, who got extremely dirty pretty often and needed about 4-5 baths a year. She never really minded too much. She'd sit calmly in my hands as I bathed her in the utility sink in the laundry room. She loved the blow dyer so much that she'd hunker down and purr when I pulled it out. The only other times I bathed my birds were when I had a broody hen with a terrible louse infestation and used flea shampoo for cats. I was wary of using powders when her chick was only a day old, so I bathed her instead. She took it like a champ and neither she nor her chick suffered any ill effects. In fact, her infestation was totally gone within a few hours!

 

[Rileysixchix]

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WOW! thats GREAT! now do the birds try to flap out and fly when they are in the water?