Official BYC Poll: Where Do Your Chickens Dust Bathe?

[Brooks_]

Mine are partial to a dry spot under the edge of a roof and a couple of old pots that still have some soil.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Mine love dustbathing in my garden thats why I put up a fence around the garden this year. They also dustbathe wherever they want in the yard, and on the pots on the deck (that still have plants) they spray dirt everywhere.

 

[Baumshell28]

I used some pavers to wall off a corner of their run. In that corner, it’s filled with sand, pebbles and ashes left from bonfires, instead of the shavings & wood chips that make up the ground cover in the rest of their run. In case you’re wondering...yes, they use it regularly. As do they also use ANY other spot in the run AND coop that they feel is best at the time, lol!

 

[NorthEastGameBirds]

I reckon my lot would still dig a new dust bath if I put a proper one in there for them, awkward little blighters!

 

[Willow2253]

Dirt floor of the coop, pots of soil in the run, the garden when the gate is open, but their favorite spot is under the pine trees on the hill behind the house because the dirt is always dry there.

 

[papajoesfarm]

I have 10 six week old SIlver Laced Wyandottes that are taking dust baths in their Juvie coop, in the deep litter of pine chips. Happy chirps, clouds of chips and dust, and the non-bathers peck the bathers. Then they change places, and start all over. Fun for everyone - party on!

 

[BantammChick]

We have a wood stove, so we have ashes to throw out, and they love to make dust piles in the ashes, the guineas do too. The guineas make dust holes in the yard, and then when it rains the ducks love to play in them bc they make big puddles.

 

[Kraigwd]

Old tire in run with dirt and wood stove ash.

 

[Kelly Klumpp]

my chickens poop all over our porch and then dustbathe behind the bushes

 

[Tashua]

here’s another -this is Lucy under the saw palmetto - she loves the wet sand poured all over her