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[RyefordPaul]

I am aware of the importance of a nice dust bath for me new chucks that arrive in a couple of days. Does anyone have any good ideas as to how to create one without me chucks digging up my grass & creating their own!

 

Will a flower pot be OK or will I need something bigger for my 4 chucks?

[C&T]

I created a BEAUTIFUL dust bath for them - they refused to use it. They instead made their own in the flower bed, moving a load of soil onto the path...

 

And no matter how often I clean up the mess, back they go and create it again!!

 

Contrary things.... But they do look cute when dust bathing though!!

[Cooks]

mine have just dug their own right slap bang in front on the WIR just to trip me up. you can make dustbaths but like the poster above says they will only make their own

[Valkyrie]

I have our kiddies old sand pit, full of lovely topsoil with louse powder etc. They have discovered a patch in the border where I have been fighting vetch so it is bare - apart from the grooves worn by flapping birds. Also I have a sort of tiered iron flower basket thing. They squeeze under the middle section to bath in the remains of dirt and moss on the lower part.

I remember someone posting a picture of a flowerpot growing a chicken some time ago.

[Leicester_H]

I created a BEAUTIFUL dust bath for them - they refused to use it. They instead made their own in the flower bed, moving a load of soil onto the path..

Same here !

They just won't listen to reason!!

H

[clucky chicken]

My little darlings just used to poop in their lovely dustbath that I made for them, and instead used an area that we had laid especially for a patio area - unfortunately - it's also used by the cats as a litter tray - Euurrgghhh!!!

Can't be pleasant, surely, but they won't go anywhere else!!! Am going to have to get those slabs down soon, which will upset them greatly!!!

 

Sorry chooks and cats!

[chelsea]

Initially we used a rectangular cat litter tray when we had the 2 chooks.

 

We have now "upgraded" to a shallow purple tubtrug (purple!), filled with compost and it gets used everyday.

[chick wiggle]

I have our kiddies old sand pit, full of lovely topsoil with louse powder etc. They have discovered a patch in the border where I have been fighting vetch so it is bare - apart from the grooves worn by flapping birds. Also I have a sort of tiered iron flower basket thing. They squeeze under the middle section to bath in the remains of dirt and moss on the lower part.

I remember someone posting a picture of a flowerpot growing a chicken some time ago.

 

Is this it Koojie? this was my beautiful Tallulah can you believe the day before she died No, nothing to do with the dustbathing, she had a prolapse. She loved this flower pot though and the others hardly ever got a look in