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So here's me thinking now that its winter, its colder, its wetter and the sun is rarely out that my chooks would not dustbath as often. I mean its not like there's any dust around for them to bath in.

 

but i went out at lunch time to visit them all and herro came charging down the garden from her favourtie bathing spot and shook herself off all over my trousers, Big clumps of wet soil and mud all over my shins. :shock:

Thanks herro :lol:

 

Do anyone elses hens like to do this? maybe herro is just giving herself a mudpack. ive always wondered what her secret is to getting those silky feathers lookingso good. :lol:

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Oh mine do this by choice! The first time they went in the farm behind me they did it in heavy recently ploughed clay, that was lovely :roll: The first time I noticed it I thought one had some horrible disease as I could just see all this brown gunk around the shafts of the breast feathers, thought it was some hideous festering injury :lol: they are funny yet skanky critters

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Funny you should post this, today my girls have dug a nice hole in my boarder and covered themselves! Missy apon seeing me jumped onto my decking and sprinkled clods of earth everywhere. That will teach me to get round to building them a proper dustbath with sand. My White star isnt looking so white!

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