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[Mar1a]

It's rained here all day today and although the roof of their run is covered, the sides are not wholly covered. So it was inevitable really that they'd find the muddy bits

 

My white sussex seems to have got mud all around her neck! She has a penchant for drinking water out of puddles or empty of solid material litter trays- so it's possible that she's got it on herself that way I guess.

 

Will she clean herself? Do I need to do anything or provide something that they don't already have? I don't have any DE but I could put some compost in to help them dustbath if that would help?

 

Thanks for reading my stupid question!

 

PS bringing her home and giving her a bath isn't an option

[mullethunter]

 

My mum has a white leghorn type hybrid who likes a mud bath!

 

As long as your girls have somewhere to dust bath she'll get herself clean again. Shelley got pooed on whilst standing under a perching Wyandotte a month or so ago, and she'd got her feathers clean again by the end of the next day.

[redsunset]

I live in the Scottish outer Hebrides and it's been a long wet muddy windy winter!! Mud is no problem to chooks as once it dries it is shaken off their feathers along with any bugs that tried to hitch a ride. I used to be able to spot any chooks that the cockerel had been um, loving with due to mud on their backs! Muddy feet were the norm too. Hoping for a drier or dryish spell now?

[LHawley88]

One set of our chooks got very muddy with the rain yesterday, and having 2 bantams in there, one being all white (!) it was quite funny to see her under-belly all brown!

 

Once they've dried out and preened they'll be fine.

Mud on the neck might have been due to her drinking out of puddles, scratching, or bathing in the mud!