shake clean and can be used multiple times before needing to be washed. I tried small pet pine litter pellets first but I’m sensitive to pine. Now I’m giving hemp pellets a try, but what I really love is compressed coffee litter pellets for chickens. Really kills the odor, and works even better at

pouch to absorb moisture. This does several things. It absorbs moisture which reduces odors (like to practically nothing except immediately after a stinky poo) and is better for vent health. It also coats the droppings which keeps them from sticking to the diaper liner so the diapers pretty much

If you’re on Facebook, join the group Huggable House Chickens and Ducks. Handling dander is easy. Regular baths with a glycerin rinse. The glycerin doesn’t just add moisture to skin and feathers, it also makes the feather sheathing flakes and skin flakes heavier so they fall to the floor and stay

Yep. And doing Epsom salt soaks are also done for egg binding, leg sprains, & other health reasons. And people who show chickens bathe them before a show.

I was just giving her a bath because she lives in the house and needed a bath. 😂 I also do a glycerin rinse to moisturize her skin & feathers.

I love my happy chickens and watching them “chickening about” makes me feel calm and happy.

Too much awful stuff in the timeline right now, so here’s a mental palette cleanser: a chicken enjoying a bath.

Dilly is a lavender Ameraucana hen who loves spa day.

#chickens #backyardchickens #blueskychickens #cutepets

Chickens can be kept as house pets. I have two house chickens. They wear diapers when they are roaming the house, and I have litter in their cage that I scoop every day.

Dilly is my cuddle chicken. She’s loved being held and cuddled since she was a baby. My husband took this video when I was cuddling with her while I was camped out on the sofa with the flu.

Yeah, dogs & chickens can be a volatile mix depending on the personalities involved. My Chihuahua, Dude, isn’t a problem because he’s only a couple of months older than my house hens & they were raised together, & he’s not much bigger than them. But I don’t leave them together unsupervised.

them when they are still babies by putting them out during the heat of the day in a pop up pen while I’m cleaning their brooder. Then they graduated to the mini run for day trips, and then we transitioned them to sleeping in the mini coop at night. It worked well.

Ours killed a couple of artichoke plants, and artichokes have really beefy, fibrous stalks! But they just chewed them up! We had a vegetable garden before we had chickens. We’re going to do new fencing around the beds and try again in spring. One bed will just be greens they like. Mostly arugula.

We have several speckled Sussex and they really are just the most wonderful birds. This is my husband with our original flock their first year. Friendly, inquisitive, smart, and so darned cute. Plus they are good layers. 💕