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Four weeks ago BC (Before Chickens) I fertilised all my rose bushes and then this past weekend I gave them all a healthy dose of Iron Sulphate because they suffer from chlorosis. Well, the chooks have decided that dustbathing at the base of my roses and EATING the fetilized soil there is just the best thing to do all day :shock: Thank goodness I only use organic fertiliser! Who knows whether eating Iron Sulphate will do them any good. I guess they won't be suffering from anaemia any time soon. :lol:

They've also taken a liking to all the new buds on the rose bushes. Honestly, I would've thought that pecking at the thorniest roses ever grown would not be high on their daily agenda :roll:

 

I made them a dustbath of compost and DE in a low basin. They ate it.

I made them another dustbath of soil, DE, and compost in my tubtrug. They ignored it.

I put the tubtrug filled with soil, DE and compost on top of the crater they made. They continued to ignore it and made a new crater at the base of my hydrangeas.

Someone tell me please, why the rootzone :?: Why not in the big empty vege garden that could really do with some mad chickens wreacking havoc :?::?::?:

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Sounds so typical. :lol:

 

Maybe they like to peck at a few beasties that aren't present in the lovingly prepared "home made" dustbaths.

 

I have spent time and money in the past on dustbath stuff for them, only to have my gift spurned.

 

I don't bother now......

 

The only thing that thee do prefer is a pile of cold ashes from the fire.

 

They look terrifying when they emerge from that.

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pop in a much loved plant to the homemade dust bath and then they'll start using it :wink:

 

Chickens are very contrary - when my girls first arrived i spent ages making them a dust bath in a lovely old tub, they repeatedly turned their beaks up at it preferring instead to dust bath by the roots of the clematis. In the end i decided as they weren't going to use the tub as a dust bath, I would make use of it and I planted it with some lavendars

 

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as you can this has solved the problem of them not using my homemade dustbath

:D:D

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pop in a much loved plant to the homemade dust bath and then they'll start using it :wink:

 

Chickens are very contrary - when my girls first arrived i spent ages making them a dust bath in a lovely old tub, they repeatedly turned their beaks up at it preferring instead to dust bath by the roots of the clematis. In the end i decided as they weren't going to use the tub as a dust bath, I would make use of it and I planted it with some lavendars

 

as you can this has solved the problem of them not using my homemade dustbath

:D:D

:think: Hmm might be worth a try :lol:

Mine have spurned my dustbaths. However, the pooey aubiose s"Ooops, word censored!"ing from the eglu they like :?:vom:

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I did think of that at first but then they discovered a old bonfire pile and went mad for it! :lol::lol::lol:

 

Strange really as sawdust isn't recommended due to the dust!

 

They look really scary when they have been dust bathing in ash. As soon as I re-fill their dust bath, they clamber over each other to get in first :roll::lol::lol:

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hillfamily wrote:

pop in a much loved plant to the homemade dust bath and then they'll start using it Wink

 

 

Thats exactly what the little devils did :!::!::!: I'm rooting a cutting from a hydrangea for a friend and it was getting a real workout from the girls. Not to mention the local squirrel family. I have a couple of lavenders that i forgot to plant last year :oops: that I could re-pot into the trug. Either that or bury some meal worms in it :roll:

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