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Hi All!
I love looking at the pictures of everyones chickens on the forum but please could someone help me to answer this question?

How do you all keep your chickens clean, tidy and mud free..... I have even seen pics of clean white silkies!! My burly girls wallow round in the muddy quagmire in our garden, always have muddy feet (so I can tell when they have popped in the kitchen door!) and always have flecks / clumps of mud over them. How can everyone else have clean chickens? Maybe my garden is too muddy for silkies!!!?

(Maybe I am supposed to give them a wash occasionally!!!)
 
Well CC, some people keep their show birds on wood shavings inside so their feet and feathers stay clean. If you want you can bath them. Get them nice and wet in a shallow bath of luke warm water. Baby shampoo and rinse and then dab and blow dry on low heat. They come up a treat and like the blow dry (hate the rest).
 
then just like dogs they will go find the muddest yukkest place and have a mud bath :lol: :lol: :lol: i wont bath my girls in this weather as i have no where for them to dry properly but i do thier bums a lot in the summer or spring .
 
There's a reason why you only see photos of the clean ones and none of the dirty ones! LOL
Mine are wearing this seasons latest, chocolate socks and cocomud chanel parfum. :lol:
 
karminski said:
then just like dogs they will go find the muddest yukkest place and have a mud bath :lol: :lol: :lol: i wont bath my girls in this weather as i have no where for them to dry properly but i do thier bums a lot in the summer or spring .
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just dogs? NO WAY children, horses and husbands are just as bad... :-)10
 
Bertie & The Chooks said:
There's a reason why you only see photos of the clean ones and none of the dirty ones! LOL
Mine are wearing this seasons latest, chocolate socks and cocomud chanel parfum. :lol:
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When I came back from one of the bigs shows I let the exhibition girls back out...within minutes their gorgeous spotless muffling and beards were just covered in mud! :D
 
I read that as 'you have to suffer to be pretty'. How close was I Marigold? It's a lovely language but I'm not sure I'll ever be anywhere near fluent. Still I'll have plenty of opportunity to try.

Can I be a seasoned cockerel please?
 
i wander if its true to chickens as well as horses , from years ago i was told by the oldies that a dirty horse is a clean horse ?? now i dont groom mine in the winter { ok to much mud to deal with when its over an inch deep thats my excuse } and in the summer they may get 2 baths each over a few months and then just general quick brush down and they seem happier with that then a good deep down groom .
 
chrismahon said:
I read that as 'you have to suffer to be pretty'. How close was I Marigold? It's a lovely language but I'm not sure I'll ever be anywhere near fluent. Still I'll have plenty of opportunity to try.

Can I be a seasoned cockerel please?
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I think "necessary to suffer(or be a pain) for beauty" would be how I would read it. I love french, but I'm better at reading it and speaking it than writing it and listening to it. odd, something to do with my ADHD i think! :-)11
 
Bertie & The ChooksI love french said:
Speaking and reading are easier-to-learn language skills than listening and writing, in any language. Listening is of course the first language skill, and intimately linked with speaking, but with speaking and reading, as an adult learner, you have more of a chance to take your time and work out your meaning. Writing has its own complications, ie the 'code' elements, ie letter formation and spelling, as well as physical co-ordination and, nowadays, keyboard skills. I was interested to see that my computer put the circumflex on top of 'etre' when I typed it as part of a French saying, (but hasn't done it this time, in isolation in an English sentence.) I struggled through A level French, just about passed, mainly because I knew all my set books off by heart, not because I had any useful or lasting skills which would help me to communicate with a French person.

I digress. Sorry. Have you noticed, an obsession with cleanliness is something which usually arrives in adolescence in humans (the 'hours in the bathroom' stage of development,) is very seldom found at all in children and as Bertie remarks, not at all in horses (or dogs - or chickens.)
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