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Chickens don't take water baths. Instead they take dust baths to keep their feathers clean and bug-free.

Dust baths aren't only fun for chickens, they are essential for their health. Here are 15 things to add to them for maximum benefits.

A chicken dust bath keeps your flock dry and healthy by removing various pests and parasites. Check out 6 of our bath ideas with our guide!

A dozen Do's and a dozen Dont's of Keeping Chickens Some poultry keepers may not agree with this list, and some will say "well, for goodness sake, thats just common sense". But, after the success and popularity of our recent Flyte so Fancy Health Chart it was suggested, by many of you, that we put a few basic chicken keeping 'rules' in a list. This we have put together from the the most common questions we receive on our Help and Advice telephone line. A DOZEN DO'S:- DO collect eggs…

If you're searching how to make a dust bath for chickens, click here to learn how and why it's so important for your chicken's health.

How to make a dust bath for chickens to control parasites. You can use almost any type of container as long as you add wood ash and diatomaceous earth and your chicken will have the perfect dust bath.

Chicken dust baths are essential to your flocks' health. We have over 20 ideas on how to make a dust bath container that is dirt-cheap.

See what Emily Adkins (chickencoopdesi) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas.