Chicken bath

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.

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…

There are a few things you can add to your chickens' dust bath that make absolute sense, but don't add these 3 other things to it!

If you're searching how to make a dust bath for chickens, click here to learn how and why it's so important for your chicken's health.

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.

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

Chicken dust baths are essential to your flocks' health. We have over 20 ideas on how to make a dust bath container that is dirt-cheap.

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…

Should you bathe your chickens? It's not often that you would bathe a chicken, but there are a few instances when a chicken definitely needs a bath. Here's when you should, and shouldn't bathe your chickens.