Official BYC Poll: Where Do Your Chickens Dust Bathe?

[Regina Larsen]

Preferably while you're holding some mealworms!

Truth. Anyone who says chickens are dumb needs to keep 'em for a bit.

 

[neo71665]

Preferably while you're holding some mealworms!

Your lucky. Try twisting your ankle while carrying 2 five gallon buckets of water.

 

[FortFusterCluck]

We use a large baby pool

 

[preciouspanda]

Your lucky. Try twisting your ankle while carrying 2 five gallon buckets of water.

Twisted and broke my ankle by just walking around

 

[preciouspanda]

My neighbors chickens come over and play with my chickens and come here first thing in morning to time to bed and they bath wherever and whenever they want almost made a small stock pond for my ducks to play in

 

[BDutch]

I used to have a big flower pot filled with sand in the coop/run combi to keep the sand clean and dry. But after attaching an old window under an angle on the outside they prefer that spot.
Every 2-4 months I add some sand with a little diatomaceous earth. Its a great combination to prevent parasites.

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

At the moment, my tiniest babies are shunning the bowl of dirt I thoughtfully provided, in favor of bathing in their soon-to-be replaced open food dish. Lol. My older hens have a "chicken spa" of gorgeous dark earth, underneath the coop.

 

[Perris]

Mine have a large covered area of native soil, to which I add cold bonfire ash periodically; and a lidded plastic box with a mix of sand, ash, and a little DE; and they make their own craters wherever they like. Mass bathing is popular here

 

[Tre3hugger]

Wherever they want!

 

[PopoMyers]

With all the rain and moisture in their bathing holes, they will just fling the damp dust anyway, and come out with saggy britches. Their butts re-fluff after they dry and all the dirt falls\gets shaken off.