Wurshin' Chickens for show!

[Rare Feathers Farm]

So I think I have a good idea for how to whiten my white bird...but what about washing a black one? I thought I'd read somewhere you don't wash a game chicken? She's not particularly dirty-looking....but she's never been washed, either. Do I just trim her nails & wash her feet? Do I wash the entire bird?

How soon before the show do I wash them?

Does anyone have any other tips for a nervous newbie?

I'm taking three of my birds...and it's next weekend. I'm leaving next Friday morning and the show is next Saturday!

 

[purelypoultry]

We wash all our birds a week before a show. Wash the entire bird first in a flea and tick dog shampoo, then in vinegar water and then in plain rinsing water. The vinegar takes suds of out the bird and the flea and ticks are to get rid of all the bugs.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

http://www.pathfindersfarm.com/Articles.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Wash-a-Chicken

http://www.pathfindersfarm.com/Prepping.html

http://www.hcfair.net/Livestock/Poultry%20Clinic/Bathing%20and%20Grooming%20your%20Chicken.pdf

http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/lvstk2/L771.pdf

http://msucares.com/4h_Youth/4hpoultry/show.html

here is some articles I found that helped me, in some you have to look for the bathing instructions

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Do all chickens have bugs? I've looked at mine and never seen any...my husband thinks it's our climate...or maybe it's because most of all are hatched here and it's a new coop...thanks for the tips, though...that means I get to wash them this weekend!

 

[pips&peeps]

I'll be thinking of you while I do mine too......

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Are you coming to Monroe next weekend?

 

[pips&peeps]

Yep. We're having an ameraucana meet.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Oh that's right...I think I saw that in the catalog. It will be nice to see everyone's purdy birds.

I just hope I can get mine ready & cleaned before then! My Sussex kind of has a dirty butt, LOL Do you know how to wash a Sumatra? Thanks

 

[pips&peeps]

No, I wouldn't even know how to pack one up to take to the show without damaging the tail.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

LOL I'm actually just bringing a pullet. I'm not sure how you'd pack a roo, either! Mine roo's tail is FINALLY growing back after the Sebbie gosling "teethed" on it last year! LOL