Chicken bath

As a new backyard chicken keeper, I’m still surprised at some of the tasks I need to do – last week I learned how to bathe a chicken (and why…

How to make a dust bath for chickens to control parasites. You can use almost any type of container as long as you add wood ash and diatomaceous earth and your chicken will have the perfect dust bath.

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You may need to bathe your chicken. Bathing a chicken is a lot like bathing an infant or a dog- the most important thing is to prevent drowning while accomplishing the objective with reasonable speed

A dust bath is essential for killing lice and mites - tiny parasites that can seriously harm your chickens. Here's how to make one in two minutes.

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Learn what to put in a chicken dust bath so you can make your homestead flock a dust bath that will be beneficial and enjoyable for them!

Bathing and grooming your backyard chickens may not be something you have thought about. After all, chickens are pretty low maintenance pets. And most of the time your backyard chickens will get along fine grooming their feathers and enjoying a dust bath in their pen or your backyard. But there […]

Nicole Hettinger on Instagram: "Treating bumblefoot in chickens. Bumblefoot can occur when a chicken gets a cut or scrape on their foot. It then gets infected and creates almost like an abscess on the bottom of their foot. It’s fairly easy to treat so don’t worry! We start by soaking the foot in a bath of warm water and epsom salt. 5 minutes is a good place to start, but a worse case could require a longer soak. Once the foot has been soaked for a bit, find the problem area and gently push…