This past Sunday (the 12th), we had to give our tom boy a bath. She is very high maintenance and be a bother. Her chest gets matted and mussed up from food drying on it and her nose is always clogged with dirt. Prior to the wash her comb and wattles were brown and above her eyes was covered in dirt. Her nails were caked with mud and her beak was brown with dirt, too.
Penny before her bath.
She is the only chicken who enjoys foot-soakings or bubble baths, she has a great appreciation for the finer things in life.
"Move it slave, draw me a bath!"
"What the deuce are you looking at?"
"Haha very funny. Who made me a hat?"
"Am I pretty?"
"Yes I am."
"I am very pretty."
Here is our Penny, nice and pretty. She stayed this way until morning when she got out of the coop and into the run. Once I got home I found her chest matted and sticky again and felt disappointed, but she was very pretty while it lasted, not a mark on her. We blowed dried her until she was fluffy. She has the fluffiest butt out of all our chickens and it usually requires weekly baths when the poo dries against her skin and irritates it yet we cut some of those feathers off and it was a little better.
We bathed her in a big box full of warm water and soap that didn't wear off too much of the oil on her feathers. The water was black after she was done with it.
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