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Do any of you use ash from the wood stove as a dust bath for your chickens? Mine love it!!
What a good idea have not here but use it when the path gets so muddy alsoDo any of you use ash from the wood stove as a dust bath for your chickens? Mine love it!!
I use a mixture of sand and wood ashes I don't have a wood stove at this house so just build a fire out back and burn limbs from the trees that have fallen, clean up and dust bath matereal they do love it.Do any of you use ash from the wood stove as a dust bath for your chickens? Mine love it!!
Why the heck are they still in the HOUSE?! They could have been out weeks ago. Mine go straight from the incubator to the garage brooder (average temp out there is 50*). By the time they are 4 weeks old, they are feathered in and outside.
I use the heating pad cave method. And the ambient temp of the brooder is usually between 40 to 50 degrees. The chicks get to choose just how much warmth, or how little warmth they want. They feather in very quickly. Keeping them too warm actually makes them take longer to feather in.Yours don't take eight weeks to get all their feathers? I've always waited eight weeks till they are outside completely if the weather is cold.
I use this method too and it works very well. The sooner they are outside and on soil the better.I use the heating pad cave method. And the ambient temp of the brooder is usually between 40 to 50 degrees. The chicks get to choose just how much warmth, or how little warmth they want. They feather in very quickly. Keeping them too warm actually makes them take longer to feather in.