people with house chickens

[subhanalah]

Oh the dirty feet! Of course my silkies have the feathered feet that catches everything. I'm constantly having to take them to the sink and wash them off. Then dry them off with a towel. I laugh so hard at Maria. She doesn't like wet feet and will do the high stepping walk when she gets down on the floor. She'll raise each leg high into the air to take a step. I call this her wearing high heels walk! LOL

You can keep her out of the water bowl by getting one of those water dishes if you want her to stop doing that. But it sounds like it isn't a problem for you to deal with! Just a suggestion for ya!

I use Johnson Baby Shampoo to bathe my kids with. But I've learned from someone else that Dawn detergent is also a great thing to use too. I mean it's used to bathe wild birds with when they are covered in oil spills. So I guess it wouldn't hurt my kids. It's supposed to also kill fleas on dogs too!

How big is she now? Picture please! I love the Buffs!

TC

Dawn dish soap strips the feathers of the oils (it's not petro-chemicals and you kind of want them to stay on the bird) so I wouldn't use it as a regular thing or a spot cleaning. It may be worth trying to dissolve some in water and use a squirrel bottle to spray down the bird if it had mites or lice, but I don't think they work the same way as fleas do (that's how you bathe a flea-ridden dog )

I actually just used Johnson and Johnsons lavender baby shampoo today. A silkies got stuck between a mesh wire fence and some plywood. It had gotten a lot of poop in its feathers and was walking funny, so inside for a bath and blow dry.

 

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Dawn dish soap strips the feathers of the oils (it's not petro-chemicals and you kind of want them to stay on the bird) so I wouldn't use it as a regular thing or a spot cleaning. It may be worth trying to dissolve some in water and use a squirrel bottle to spray down the bird if it had mites or lice, but I don't think they work the same way as fleas do (that's how you bathe a flea-ridden dog )

I actually just used Johnson and Johnsons lavender baby shampoo today. A silkies got stuck between a mesh wire fence and some plywood. It had gotten a lot of poop in its feathers and was walking funny, so inside for a bath and blow dry.

Oh okay! So I won't be using Dawn on my kids then! Thanks for the insight on that!

Those chickens can get in the darndest places! Probably the grass looked greener on the other side. Or it could have been trying to avoid another of it's pen mates!

TC

 

[subhanalah]

Oh okay! So I won't be using Dawn on my kids then! Thanks for the insight on that!

Those chickens can get in the darndest places! Probably the grass looked greener on the other side. Or it could have been trying to avoid another of it's pen mates!

TC

or it fell down in the crack. He feels much better now though, lol

 

[Sylvester017]

Oh the dirty feet! Of course my silkies have the feathered feet that catches everything. I'm constantly having to take them to the sink and wash them off. Then dry them off with a towel. I laugh so hard at Maria. She doesn't like wet feet and will do the high stepping walk when she gets down on the floor. She'll raise each leg high into the air to take a step. I call this her wearing high heels walk! LOL

You can keep her out of the water bowl by getting one of those water dishes if you want her to stop doing that. But it sounds like it isn't a problem for you to deal with! Just a suggestion for ya!

I use Johnson Baby Shampoo to bathe my kids with. But I've learned from someone else that Dawn detergent is also a great thing to use too. I mean it's used to bathe wild birds with when they are covered in oil spills. So I guess it wouldn't hurt my kids. It's supposed to also kill fleas on dogs too!

How big is she now? Picture please! I love the Buffs!

TC

Any shampoo will kill the fleas/mites. A friend of mine years ago used Pert Plus (which made hair fuller) on her 3 rescued kittens and it got rid of all their fleas - after she blow-dried them they were the fluffiest kittens on the planet because of the shampoo ingredients.

My preference is no tears baby shampoos because if the chicken flaps in the water and gets soap in her eyes (or mine) it won't irritate.

 

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Any shampoo will kill the fleas/mites. A friend of mine years ago used Pert Plus (which made hair fuller) on her 3 rescued kittens and it got rid of all their fleas - after she blow-dried them they were the fluffiest kittens on the planet because of the shampoo ingredients.

My preference is no tears baby shampoos because if the chicken flaps in the water and gets soap in her eyes (or mine) it won't irritate.

You just stated the reason I use Johnsons! No tears!

TC

 

[Ponyfeather]

Here is what Pancake looks like right now. She has got so fluffy since she came home.

 

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or it fell down in the crack. He feels much better now though, lol

Ummmm Yeah! Time to fill the crack up!

I haven't had a chicken yet that didn't feel better after a bath and being blow dried. Maria will lay on her side, stretching her leg waaaay out and then pulling it back in while daddy's blow drying her. Then the same thing on the other side. He'll pick her wing up to dry underneath it and she'll stretch her head waaaay out in front of her and make the goofiest sounds! LOL

TC

 

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She could have allergies. Our Maria does. Try giving her a Cod liver oil gel cap once a day. I get it wet, pry open her mouth and poke it in. CLO is a great immune med for all of us!

Be sure to check her for mites too. If you have wild birds in the area, then you have mites in the area too. Just a percaution! Standing in her water bowl isn't natural from what I've seen in mine. Might have leg mites working their way under her skin. That sneezing could be from mites in her nostrils.

TC

Maria was doing something this evening after coming in from outside that reminded me I needed to add this info to this post!
When her sinuses are acting up she'll tilt her head upwards and swallow a lot. This is her telling me she has a runny nose. So I give her a sinus tablet and she's better in no time!

TC

 

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Here is what Pancake looks like right now. She has got so fluffy since she came home.

She's really growing into a beautiful girl!
What's that in the glass behind her?

TC

 

[Ponyfeather]

She's really growing into a beautiful girl!
What's that in the glass behind her?

TC

She is, and super sweet. That is her temp home my geckos old tank, since she is so small still. She gets out a couple of times a day to run around on my bed which she is sitting on. Things went all pear-shaped right before I needed to pick her up, my grandma passed so I didn't get the rabbit cage ordered.