Where do I get "bluing" from?

[HorseFeathers]

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Yeah, I'm wondering that too... I don't want to show a blue chicken OR a brown one!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

If you're in a pinch, try going to a beauty store and asking for shampoo that helps get rid of yellow in hair. If it's blue...you've got it made.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Beware of using blueing, women's shampoo for grey hair or shampoo for white dogs or horses. The chances with any of these is VERY HIGH that you willl end up with a blue or purple chicken.

I don't know about you, but I prefer mine to be blue or lavender from their genes, not their grooming supplies.

You are much better to plan to bathe the bird(s) several times, letting them soak in a rinse of white vinegar after the final rinse to remove shampoo. (They don't have to stand in a pool of vinegar, you can pour it on the stained areas and then let it set for as much as half an hour before rinsing clean.) You can also apply laundry stain remover in a similar fashion.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

IDK...I was pretty stoked when I pulled out a rare Purple Jersey Giant.

 

[Bedste]

Blu Kote and Rooster Booster and that kind of stuff is at the feed store.... They call it all kinds of things but it is basically the same thing.. to eliminate pecking each other to death

 

[hippichick]

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So, this works on getting rid of yellowing on a white bird? I've got a white cochin roo who is yellow, (I guess from feeding corn?), and I'd love to get him white again. Also, is it the corn that does this. He's in a pen inside with a run with almost no sun.

 

[Imp]

OK I got the bottle in front of me. It says a few drops in clear rinse water for white hair or white pets.

Imp

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

It could be his diet, and it could be sunburned feathers. In either case neither vinegar nor bluing will remove the stain or burn--the only thing that will do that is a molt and nedw feathers.

Vinegar will get out some of the stain, depending on the extent to which it has integrated into the feathers, and it will help get out any minute bits of dirt clinging to the stained areas.

Bluing applies an optical illusion that makes the feathers look brighter, but to all extents and purposes, it is a dye, just a very pale one when properly applied.

Blu-cote contains gentian violet (hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride), which is an anti-microbial. As a side effect/benefit, gentian violet is a very strong dye that covers the red of blood or raw skin, which can attract the predatory nature of chickens.

Bluing contains ferric hexacyanoferrate, a synthetic dye named "Prussian Blue."

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

And "Prussian Blue" was seen on people and would not come off, and they were called "Purple People"!

I can't believe I remembered that...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Source? I don't remember it