unicornleather 60 Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) Home made dust bath for chickens This is for anyone who has the same problem of chickens indoors needing a dust bath. If you have the same stuff lying around as I did and you can sew/glue things together this is easy to make. Today I decided to make my chickens who are in the barn a dust bath, whilst they are stuck indoors I've been using trays and all sorts but it gets messy in there as they spray it all around.I took an old builder's bag I had in the basement and using scrap textiles (of which I have lots) made a door in the side with a "curtain", on the ends of the curtain pieces I sewed on looped tape (soft velcro) and on the top under the flange round the bag I sewed on the hook tape (rough velcro) so to train them to use it I can have the curtain up out of the way until they get comfortable going through the door then I can slowly lower the curtain pieces one at a time until they freely go though it. Inside the bag I have put some soil out of their old dustbath and will buy some new sand to boost it up.To hold the bag up right I used some baling twine and hooked the lifting loops on the bag on to hooks I had screwed in to the roof. The bag should contain most of the sand/soil etc they like to throw around!Cost next to nothing to make as I had everything to make it.Took about an hour in total, hope it helps people make their own. [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] Edited February 18, 2017 by unicornleather 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Terrier15 52 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Great idea. Especially it's soaking outside and they only have mud! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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