4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Boybeck]

I am in the process of creating a walk in run. What substance do you use for the chickens to dust bathe in?

[shibby69]

I usually use compost mixed with play sand

[Patricia W]

Mine love dry compost or bark etc. I now have deep hole in the borders where I've put bark or compost! But they do love it..

[purplefowler]

I was going to aske the same thing. I have been using a mix of soil (ours is quite sandy anyway) mixed with bird dust from wilkinsons. It is in a cat litter tray. One of the lies down in it for her afternoon nap. but other than that there is no interest in it at all. I have been dying to see them rolling about in it, but they don't seem as keen as I am

[Redwing]

I use a mix of compost and ash

[Valkyrie]

Topsoil and some compost with Diatom. They are now using my runner bean trench - which is now not a trench and quite level.

[Hen Watch]

Dry earth from hubbie's greenhouse.

[Griffin]

Compost & diatom.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Mine just use the Hemcore/Easibed and soil that's in the run . Tried an old tyre with playsand, compost and Diatom but they were so scared of it I had to remove it .

[LaPoule]

Dry compost and woodash, with a dusting of diatom.

For years, my pekins ignored my dustbath in favour of digging their own in odd corners. However, the last one died a few months ago ( ), and the new hybrids are particulary keen - watching them, all of a sudden the other chickens seemed to have realised what that random box that was always in their way is for after-all