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How to Make a Dust Bath for Your Backyard Chickens - Five Minute Chicken Tips!
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2021
- Welcome back to five minute chicken tips! This time RSM will go through what a dust bath is, why you want one for your backyard chickens, and what we put in ours. While not required, this is a great way to keep your chickens happy and healthy (plus it's hilarious!). We're glad you're here with us. Feel free to put appropriate comments/questions down below, and thanks for watching!
Just started watching your videos and they are so helpful! I am new to chickens and have 15...so I've been pretty busy learning everything I can about chickens. Thank you for your videos!
You are so welcome! They’re fun and hilarious but also a lot of work ✌🏼❤️🐓 I’m happy you found me!
I have 21 chickens and I have 3 different dust bath areas
excellent set up for chickens
Just found you. Liked and subscribed.
Great to have you here!
Helpful tip. Thanks.
I haven’t been on here for so long life is crazy. Thank you so much for this great video as always! I hope that you and your family are doing well, and I pray that God will bless you abundantly more than we could ever imagine! Take care stay safe!❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
We are hanging in there. It’s still really rough to be honest.
@@realsimplemama Oh my goodness honey were you involved in that power outage? Did it affect your family?
Yes. We had no water or power for 2.5 days. With a recent diagnosis of type 1 diabetes from my son, things were terrifying and difficult.
@@realsimplemama oh nooooo. I pray that you never have to go through that again! Stay safe stay cozy and God bless your family!
Thanks for your experience
Awesome video thank you love the setup ❤️🐣
🐓🐔l watched my three chickens do a synchronized dust bath. It was almost unbelievable because they were literally identical in there movements. Very cool to watch. And on another sad note... Poor Sally got her bottom pecked horribly bad by the two lSA chickens. I immediately separated her. Now l'm treating her for vent gleet. She is getting better. She will always be separated now. I added on a 8x8 run for her. 🐔It is so stressful but what can l do....l love her. I give her baths and bought blue Cote today. Hoping it helps. Thanks Sara
Oh no. Poor Sally I’m so sorry. They’re so good at hiding pain but I’m sure it was so difficult for her. Sounds like you’re doing everything right, I’m proud of you. Maybe eventually you can give her a friend or two ❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama Thanks Sara🐔❗
Wondering if two rescued rabbits 🐇 would be a good fit. Do you know anything about domestic 🐇 rabbits?
Oooh maybe! They definitely would need their own food and shelter. But they might be able to coexist. I think it would be a little tricky to keep each of them out of the others food and that kind of thing, and I have never had a pet rabbit but I think that might be a really neat thing. Let me know what you end up doing!
@@realsimplemama I will! But l need to pray about it first
My flock bathes themselves everywhere in the run. 😂 the others wait for a place where one of my Marans start. They are big and really get a good hole to lay down. I do add DE but not in large quantities. I just bring the container with me and sprinkle some in the areas they love. If anyone is new to chickens and is thinking about using DE, they should be very careful not to breathe in the dust! It can cause some serious respiratory problems! I have a fire pit in my yard but we burn various things in there so I have a smaller one that we had before we dug a huge pit in the back. I only burn tree debris in the small one and then use it for my chickens. My son and I have a chemical allergy so I am so very diligent about what I use.
Sarah- I just got 4 more peeps!!! I need help 😂😂😂 Two Plymouth Rocks, a Columbian Rock and a Gold Laced Wyandotte! My coop and run are pretty small so it looks like we have a big project on the agenda this spring! My Roosters will be happy and so will my girls because they are torn up from mating. Just got 6 aprons in the mail yesterday so I hope the girls don’t give me a hard time putting them on.
Thanks for the tips!! 💜💜
Oh how fun!!! Yay for more babies! And gold laced Wyandotte’s are GORGEOUS - I want to collect them all!
Do you layer the topsoil first then a layer of poultry dust on top, or mix it all together? How often should you change and clean the dirt bath? Thinking of making one for the small wild birds at my allotment.
Hi! I don’t worry about layering too much as they’ll mess it up within five minutes 😉 the only thing is that since poultry dust is so fine, it’ll blow away easily, so maybe put that lower if you do layer intentionally. I wouldn’t change it unless it gets a lot of poop in it or it gets wet in rain etc. (Though you can just really poultry dust, everything else will dry out just fine.) ✌🏻❤️🐓
If you can still buy it, Avon skin so soft lotion/oil repels mosquitoes. But lotion on or put a little oil (1-10) in a spray bottle with water, shake it and spray anything you want. Works great, if Avon still sells it. Is Avon still a thing?
Hi! I know Johnson and Johnson (or even store brands like my beloved Amazon) make a baby lotion that’s the same idea too! I use it on my kids and I. It’s a light green bottle and it’s an aloe baby cream. ✌🏻❤️🐓
Diatomaceous earth have to make sure it's the food grade because they will end up ingesting it
I made a dust bath in an old kiddie pool with sand, DE and wood ash from my fire pit. My chickens won’t use it. They still dig in the run. Is there a way to get them to start?
Sure! Throw treats in! Black oil sunflower seeds, etc. ✌🏻❤️🐓
I don’t have ash, what should I use instead?
I use coarse construction sand, peat moss, and/or fine dirt
Construction sand might be harmful if ingested by chickens.
Would an old bee honey box work
I think so! Make sure it’s weatherproof so it doesn’t fall apart with the sun and rain. ✌🏻❤️🐓 and no harsh chemicals
Do you have to add the poultry lime also after the rain?
I honestly never have!
I thought you make lye by adding water to wood ash. Does it matter? I'm assuming people have been using wood ash for dirt bath for a while, so it'll be fine. But, I just wanted to be safe.
Hi! I honestly don’t know about lye. But you’re right, we all use wood ash with the chickens 😄😄😄
@@realsimplemama I went ahead and made one. Thanks for the info.
Yes wood ash is used to make lye. So one would not use just wood ash.
My chickens won't use theirs. They try to eat it. And I give then grit. They just like the black dirt. So that's what they do..🐔🐔🐓
Lol! No worries. Even though mine have an “official” dust bath, they make ones too. But that’s ok, it’s a good thing that they clean themselves. ✌🏼❤️🐓