Q with those with a white chicken...i dont want to give new roo a bath

[Mama2B&D&...Chickens]

BUT he's quite dirty from being in quarentine--he's a coronation sussex...will his white come back after i let him out with the girls to free range and actually roost instead of sleeping in his poo

ick..i try and keep the bottom of it clean but its inevitable and he wont "roost" on my makeshift roost i tried to make him in there...i think he knows he's just really big and clumsy lol

Thanks...im sure he would NOT love a bath, and he's really SO big for me..i cant imagine trying to give him one! Maybe i'd have to do it in our shower so he couldnt run from me. BAHAHA (kidding)

 

[FireTigeris]

If you use water that is bird body temperature (around 100* F or a little more) they don't seem to mind it.

 

[klmclain1]

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think he will clean and preen himself if left to his own.

 

[donrae]

Quote:
This.

Plus, if he's really nice to the ladies, maybe the'll help groom him

 

[<3 N.C Chicken Chick <3]

My chickens got soaked when it rained maby you can let him molt, dust bath, soakde by the rain to get it off

 

[Mama2B&D&...Chickens]

thks...im just ancy too see his white and pretty and clean...lol...i'll wait till he gets free ranging i guess--the last thing i need is to make the new roo HATE me b/c i gave him a bath to see his white all purdy.

 

[saladin]

Just one more reason to avoid white chickens!

I've got White Cubalayas and White Asil; when it comes to getting them show ready I wish I had neither.

 

[JodyJo]

I have a California white hen, the roos love to "love her"...she get's dirty one day, by the next day, she is clean...they preen themselves every day...