Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Ditto

 

[farm-chick]

Do any of you use ash from the wood stove as a dust bath for your chickens? Mine love it!!

 

[theceltichorse]

Do any of you use ash from the wood stove as a dust bath for your chickens? Mine love it!!

No, but want to actually use my wood stove just for this reason (have never used it since I bought this house 2 years ago!).

 

[pennyJo1960]

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 also
my girls use the shavings as I use deep litter method

 

[mixedbreeds]

Do 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.

 

[Leigti]

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.

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.

 

[Hinotori]

At 3 weeks my silkies are halfway in on feathers. It's 70° in the bathroom so they don't usually go under the brooder anymore for warmth. They sleep in a pile in front of it.

 

[junebuggena]

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 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.

 

[JulesChicks]

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.

I use this method too and it works very well. The sooner they are outside and on soil the better.

 

[junebuggena]

Mine get a chunk of soil and grass at 1 week old to help prep them for life outside.