All Done Bathing

I finished bathing yesterday... Got 8 done more or less by myself.
Last night they were all looking good and pretty.

Today I went to check on everyone and every last one of them has decided to Dustbath in their fresh wood shavings, so all my clean black hens are covered in saw dust and shavings... Thank goodness it's not poop.

Silly Chickens!

me to...it was interesting for sure..the first one was the most awkward...i home they stay clean...LOL good thing i dont have any customers coming to pick up dogs til friday...as claude crows in there every 2 minutes hahahahaha

triplejfarms wrote:me to...it was interesting for sure..the first one was the most awkward...i home they stay clean...LOL good thing i dont have any customers coming to pick up dogs til friday...as claude crows in there every 2 minutes hahahahaha

Luke, Sone of Vader.... Crows evert 30-40 Seconds.... Him and Vader have Crow offs at times.
They are in my Garage right now so it's a tad noisy!

try having a tie died bantam rooster in your house doing a very sad crow at 7 am LOL... he sounded like he was yelling HO HO HO HO!

Im sure your birds look GREAT! Im bathing mine today and tomorrow. Whenever I do it more than a couple days early they always get filthy

That is great they are all done Jonny. The shavings come off no problem.

Look forward to see your birds there!

oh man........... i have to rebath my "WHITE"silkie!!! because dumb dumb me put him in with his girlfriend who is dyed green, blue for the bedazzle class...so now he has green, blue on him!!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAHAAHAHAHAAAAHAA!

I have to do some rebathing as well, well mostly bum touch ups...These darn cochins are just too fuzzy in the butt area...

I had to clean one bum today as well.. Thankfully it was a quick touch up.

my BIGGEST bathing problem bird i have to rebath his tail.... its all stringy I rinsed him out after shampoo for like 5 minutes in running water then vingear water for a while too. hes so BIG i wanted to make sure I got everything. I thought I did? Obviously not unless theres another cause for stringy tail feathers. The rest of him is perfect. IT didnt help me that he sat down to dry (ended up blow drying his belly cause he sat on it for 3 hours) and hasnt preend yet. Im waiting a few hours see if he preens himself. Hes not really one to care for his feathers though argh lol


HAHAHAHA now hes crowing in my bathroom. All my cats are like

I have to cancel this silkie cockerel entery out of the show I can't get the green dye out of him....I might enter him in bedazzle if I can think of something quickley to make him as!

triplejfarms wrote:I have to cancel this silkie cockerel entery out of the show I can't get the green dye out of him....I might enter him in bedazzle if I can think of something quickley to make him as!

Color him green and give him big brown eyebrows... cause we all know chickens have eyebrows... and call him Oscar the Grouch!

LOL

ahahahahah i have a idea already LOL started making the costume already LOL

So to bring my thread alive again I had a rather fun time washing only two chickens, this goes back the other day.

My Blue Orp hen was very well behaved... but the rather frantic Coronation Sussex, Whom had motor oil on her back from wandering under an old truck on our porperty back in the fall.
I managed to clean her up as most of the oil had faded, it wasn't much just a few small smudges. I tried cleaning it when it happened but no luck.

Well today, I decided to do a bum check on the gals to make sure they were tidy, and the darn Coronation Escaped on me.... into my garage and started flapping around the Garage and some how managed to get grease on her AGAIN!!!!! She squeezed in behind my tool box so I suspect it came from that.
Man keeping a white bird clean is tricky.

I used Dawn, green apple scent and a wash cloth to tackle the oily mess, it worked rather well!!!

I just finished washing her, again and did the best I could to get her clean enough to show, but most important for her own health.


Just thought I would share that.

See you at the show tomorrow~~~

Good luck at the show Jonny, hope you have fun there and fishing.

Just have to say I have ahd the best chuckles reading this thread. I so wish I could go to the show.

Man I bathed four roosters a few weeks ago and I was spent. I can't imagine doing that again for awhile. But Johnny, I've been told Sunlight Dish Detergent is great for getting grease out for future reference.