Will the work for a dust bath?

[aart]

You might want to fill it to near the top - I'd think the deeper the better.

Am guessing they would bring it back down to the level shown, or lower.

Are they using is @JoeInPA ?

 

[JoeInPA]

Am guessing they would bring it back down to the level shown, or lower.

Are they using is @JoeInPA ?

It's still drying out, I have it in the garage right now. It's raining pretty hard and the chickens didn't want to come out of the coop today.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A homemade dust bath has to be kept out of the rain or there is no dusting available and they do not take mud baths.

 

[sorce]

I would say there is a finer dirt that will dry more quickly and be better than any bagged dirt, since it is usually formulated to retain water, it will also easily pickup humidity and not be useable to them as fast as other things..

When learning about it, I recalled a place where I saw sparrows dustbathing, the ground looks like the pond where bluegills nest, a bunch of tiny craters...

I was going to go grab some of that, but since found the chickens dustbathing in any dry dirt, of course, not the spot I created for them with dirt sand DE and Ash!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Here you go. The dust Bath I made for them in the forefront. The one they use in the back where they are.

Caught em there the other day so I covered it, since the Hawks been round.

Sorce

 

[Shadrach]

Needs higher sides and more earth. Old planters work well.