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I have three very tame roosters. I'm so blessed having them, I could cry with happiness. I'm not even counting my lap chickens. My Barred Rock "Rocks-Anne" is right here with me watching me type this. And she's beautiful too! An egg each day from this girl.
I have Dylan, the African Grey parrot in my avatar for those duties. Right now she is "Meowing" like a cat and banging her toy because I am typing and not paying attention to her!
 
I know right? Rooster bathing is hard and thankless work, they're pretty ungrateful if you ask me.
The closest I've come to washing a rooster was cleaning them up after they got into a fight. I had several roosters eyes get crusted shut from blood when they fought. Never had one lose an eye though.
If I had a still, I would not care about the heat, either! We think it is pretty hot in Prescott if it is over a 100. Right now it is 80 in the kitchen, time to turn on the swamp cooler. A benefit of the low humidity is cheap cooling.
My MIL is the queen of incomplete research. When she and my FIL moved up here the year before we did, she was talking about wanting to put a swamp cooler in rather than air conditioners in the old farm house. She went on, and on, and on about how great swamp coolers are. I did a little research since I'd never heard of them. You need UNDER 50% humidity, ideally 30% or less for them to work. We are RARELY under 50%. She pouted about that one for a while. :rolleyes:
 
I have Dylan, the African Grey parrot in my avatar for those duties. Right now she is "Meowing" like a cat and banging her toy because I am typing and not paying attention to her!
I know the feeling. This bird is a crybaby too. Starving for ALL my attention.
 
The closest I've come to washing a rooster was cleaning them up after they got into a fight. I had several roosters eyes get crusted shut from blood when they fought. Never had one lose an eye though.

My MIL is the queen of incomplete research. When she and my FIL moved up here the year before we did, she was talking about wanting to put a swamp cooler in rather than air conditioners in the old farm house. She went on, and on, and on about how great swamp coolers are. I did a little research since I'd never heard of them. You need UNDER 50% humidity, ideally 30% or less for them to work. We are RARELY under 50%. She pouted about that one for a while. :rolleyes:

Last year we were to humid for the swamp cooler to work. It just made it wetter. 🤮🤢🤢🤮

We gave up and bought window mount ac units.
 
The closest I've come to washing a rooster was cleaning them up after they got into a fight. I had several roosters eyes get crusted shut from blood when they fought. Never had one lose an eye though.

My MIL is the queen of incomplete research. When she and my FIL moved up here the year before we did, she was talking about wanting to put a swamp cooler in rather than air conditioners in the old farm house. She went on, and on, and on about how great swamp coolers are. I did a little research since I'd never heard of them. You need UNDER 50% humidity, ideally 30% or less for them to work. We are RARELY under 50%. She pouted about that one for a while. :rolleyes:
Sometimes here the humidity is too low to read on our outside sensors! I like the swamp coolers to add some humidity, too dry is bad for my lungs. The swamp cooler also filters the air, I run it as soon as it hits 80*. I can bake potatoes and heat up the kitchen all I want with the cooler on and all the doors and windows open. I need the air flow, I sleep with open windows almost all the time. It has to be snowing to close my bedroom window!
 
Last year we were to humid for the swamp cooler to work. It just made it wetter. 🤮🤢🤢🤮

We gave up and bought window mount ac units.
It is disgusting if it is humid and you run a swamp cooler. The house we just got had NO swamp coolers, we had to sacrifice a little living room window to get the swamp cooler we need!
 
It is disgusting if it is humid and you run a swamp cooler. The house we just got had NO swamp coolers, we had to sacrifice a little living room window to get the swamp cooler we need!

It used to be a swampy was wonderful here. The last couple years was a battle with higher humidity. I dislike the window ac units because they take a while to bring the temp down AND I have to put a box fan in front to get any real circulation going. That and they cost a fortune to run much.

Today was so gross soggy outside trying to do anything was a challenge. I pushed through some of my to do list anyway.

The list is far to long really.
 
I pay her back by taking her to the dreaded "outside" cage while I work. She begs to go back inside!
You lock her up? My Beetov-Hen (brown leghorn) helps me with every type of work I do around the farm. She never goes in the house, but has all 2 acres to play, scratch, and dig in. But she prefers to be right by my side outdoors. She's one beautiful bird.
 
Oh no! That could not have been fun to fix!

Can not say I have ever had that pleasure! :lol: I did once wash and blow dry a little parrot who flew into a fly strip!

That is the one reason I haven't had to bathe these guys lol!
They seem to find and roll in stuff worse than any dog iv'e ever had.
At least they're happy and tame enough that it isn't too bad.
They're too big and round to struggle with.:)
The closest I've come to washing a rooster was cleaning them up after they got into a fight. I had several roosters eyes get crusted shut from blood when they fought. Never had one lose an eye though.

My MIL is the queen of incomplete research. When she and my FIL moved up here the year before we did, she was talking about wanting to put a swamp cooler in rather than air conditioners in the old farm house. She went on, and on, and on about how great swamp coolers are. I did a little research since I'd never heard of them. You need UNDER 50% humidity, ideally 30% or less for them to work. We are RARELY under 50%. She pouted about that one for a while. :rolleyes:
 

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