What kind of soap for chicken bath time?

[Catalina]

For anyone that bathes their chickens - what kind of shampoo do you use? Gentle baby shampoo or dog shampoo or....?

 

[SloCrevs]

I use a hypoallergenic puppy shampoo. I picked it up @ a pet store, rather cheap actually. Before that I had another brand(same thing though) that I got at Walmart, yay for $4 a bottle!

 

[Napalongtail]

We use baby shampoo for most colored birds. But we use a bluing shampoo on the solid white birds, as well as mrs.wrights liquid bluing in their bath water. I hear some people use vinegar too, but I don't.

 

[Catalina]

Thanks!

 

[BlueMoon]

Just to get them clean, I've used two low toxic detergents. Dr. Bronners and Ecover. Both worked well and didn't take forever to rinse out the suds.

 

[SpottedCrow]

I've used baby shampoo, but there was a clearanced doggy shampoo that's all herbal that I bought this week for a buck at work.

 

[mdbucks]

I missed the memo, am I supposed to be bathing my chickens???

 

[V Chic Chick]

Quote:
Only for showing

 

[SpottedCrow]

Or if they've rolled in something icky...
Most of the time, dustbathing is enough to keep them clean.

 

[hipmarye]

The only time I've bathed them was to show and we filled 3 containers with water. We mixed tail and mane shampoo in the first, white vinegar in the second and fabric softener in the third. They looked marvelous!