Also as a cheaper option to the peat try coconut coir mix it with diatomaceous earth and clay soil as it's the most common. The coir is high in salt so it absorbs the oils and it's sustainable the diatomaceous earth is abrasive and like mites and other parasite while the clay adds stability to the mix it's also absorbent and abrasive.
@@briankeeney9272 its not. Peat is specifically moss from bogs from a certain part of the world. Its takes at least 25 years for moss from that bog to become peat moss but we use it at a much faster rate than it can be made. Its also just destroying natural swamp lands
I would say mix in a little food grade dichotomous Earth it's very fine and sticks to the joints of bugs I use it in my coops to keep the bugs almost none existent
You don't have to overthink it. Ash. That's all they need. Ofc no plastic, or nails in it, but if you have ash of any wood... They'd love it the most. Regards from East-Europe ✌️✌️
We're actually not eating our pets (chickens included). Each one has its own job or multiple. Horse n pony keep the lawn cut down. Cat kills rodents (in house during cold months n he moves himself to our storage trailer during warmer months.. he has a way out. We let him back in when we go in. Lol) Chickens eat the ticks n whatever other bugs. Dog helps keep most ground predators away when she's outside.
Well....considering it's literally volcanic shards of cooled and puffed up molten glass,yeah I'd say eating it is a lil painful when they eat it for grit in their craw? I'd prolly go with @Outdoors with Wacky & @Sam Graham on this one. I know they love it,but perlite doesn't really love them back. great video and much love for taking such good care of them doodies (what I call chikns) u can hear how happy they are!
My chickens find lose dirt under a bush , tree or some times under the front porch. They are covered in dust after they are done.The soil is made of a clay where I live. The is also little rocks in it
Peat moss dust: causes respitory issues for all birds Perlite: literally just toxic to ingest and those chickens are for sure eating it. Hope this helps.
Any man who takes that much care with their animals is a real man. If this is the love and care he is giving his livestock, I can only imagine the love and care he is giving his family. You’re dope, dude. Keep it up xoxoxo😊
Since perlite is volcanic glass, I wouldn't be comfortable adding it to the bath. I like a bit of fireplace ash made from clean wood and some diatomaceous earth. The concrete mixing bin is perfect. I have limited space so I put mine in a doggy tent to keep it dry.
Do not use pearlite like that. It is basically glass and is dangerous because it breaks down and will get inhaled by your chickens. What goes into lungs never comes out. That goes for all animals including humans .
Please use coco coir instead of peat moss. Peat moss harvesting is incredibly harmful to the environment. Coco coir is identical in its properties compared to peat moss but it isn’t as acid as peat moss is.
I’ve looked into coco it’s not identical. Has similar properties. It would probably be suitable for chickens. It may be more “sustainable” but takes significantly more resources to create and ship around the globe.
Might I suggest trying something other than peat moss? Industrial Peat Moss harvesting of destroys peat bogs which are extremely important biomes for biodiversity and to lock away carbon
Chickens have what is called a uropygial gland or preen gland. They use the oils secreted from that gland to waterproof their feathers and to keep their beaks and feet soft. As for the dust bath? That is to make their feathers less habitable to pests. Chickens can and will make their own dust baths, but you can encourage it to help keep your chickens pest free.
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DO NOT BREATH IN PEAT MOSS DUST...OR ANYTGING CHICKENS USE FOR A DUST BATH...per Rocky Mount NASH hospital pulmonary dept.
Thank you
Holy shit Nash General that's where i was born 😂
Thanks
Gawd thanks for telling me I've been huffing this stuff to get high the years now. Better find a new silica to breathe in for kicks.
So what’s the problem with doing so?
Whenever I hear a farmer of any kind refer to his female animals as “the girls” idk it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside like awww!
We do love them 😊
Wife material lady right here ❤💯☮️
It’s called having a heart 🥰
The girls are the most important
@@k7l3rworkman97what
@@earthnailsandtailsLove them too, great in soups
Also as a cheaper option to the peat try coconut coir mix it with diatomaceous earth and clay soil as it's the most common. The coir is high in salt so it absorbs the oils and it's sustainable the diatomaceous earth is abrasive and like mites and other parasite while the clay adds stability to the mix it's also absorbent and abrasive.
Love the thought and reasons behind this mix 👌🏼
@@earthnailsandtails yeah you can use it for plants as well it's a great mix just wash the coconut coir twice before using it.
Peat moss also isnt renewable so it is nice to have a renewable alternative in the cocnite coir
@@Nwmguyit’s literally just old moss, guy. That’s pretty renewable
@@briankeeney9272 its not. Peat is specifically moss from bogs from a certain part of the world. Its takes at least 25 years for moss from that bog to become peat moss but we use it at a much faster rate than it can be made. Its also just destroying natural swamp lands
Thank you for your time to explain that!
Chickens are like the crackheads of the animal world they're always picking at the ground😂
I use ash, dirt, sand, food grade diatomaceous earth.
Add diatomaceous earth to kill any lice or bugs on your chickens...
Wont the lice still be on the chicken?
@@karaltar7914 no the diamataceous earth kills them
That’s one of my favorite things ever and we used it and steam to get rid of the bedbugs at my moms place in February 2008 😅
Perlite is structurally similar to de and is cheaper.
make sure u use food grade!
I mean we have chickens they just dug out like a shallow pit and use it as a dust bath and they're doing super well
I would say mix in a little food grade dichotomous Earth it's very fine and sticks to the joints of bugs I use it in my coops to keep the bugs almost none existent
i am a plant girl and i also use compost and perlite to repot my plants, so this feels like you’re about about to repot your chickens to me 😂😂😂😂
Your chickens look so good I thought they were photoshopped 😂😂😂
Well thanks!
My chickens are always bing chilling (laying down or dust bathing) in the shaded areas of my coop it gets 80-90°F possibly 100°F in July.
I miss my chickens as a kid, they used to this dirt bath under a tree
I've given my birds access to dirt in a large run for almost 6 years. No trouble yet.
You don't have to overthink it. Ash. That's all they need. Ofc no plastic, or nails in it, but if you have ash of any wood... They'd love it the most.
Regards from East-Europe ✌️✌️
Ah yes, potting soil for my chickens. Why have i never thought of that 😂
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Chickens are such an underrated pet.
I'm going to try this out with my chickens, I'm sure they will love it. Thanks for the tip!
Cherish our animals ❤ give your animals an amazing blessed loved life before we eat them.
We're actually not eating our pets (chickens included). Each one has its own job or multiple.
Horse n pony keep the lawn cut down.
Cat kills rodents (in house during cold months n he moves himself to our storage trailer during warmer months.. he has a way out. We let him back in when we go in. Lol)
Chickens eat the ticks n whatever other bugs.
Dog helps keep most ground predators away when she's outside.
This man taking growing chickens litteral
I like how they're over there scratching like, "did he do some food in our bath tub, that's usually why he's in here is food for us 😊".
I made a similar "fancy" dustbath dust. My chickens decided the pile of sawdust was fine 😂
My chickens just dig holes all over the yard and bathe in the dust from it
Honestly people are just doing the most. Chicken for thousands of years have not been getting this treatment and they’ve been just fine! Lol
I was always told to keep perlite as far away from chickens as possible.
Why?
@@earthnailsandtails same. Because some of them ending up eating it and some do it way too much.
Well....considering it's literally volcanic shards of cooled and puffed up molten glass,yeah I'd say eating it is a lil painful when they eat it for grit in their craw? I'd prolly go with @Outdoors with Wacky & @Sam Graham on this one. I know they love it,but perlite doesn't really love them back. great video and much love for taking such good care of them doodies (what I call chikns) u can hear how happy they are!
@@earthnailsandtailsIt can tear internal tissues and cause impaction if ingested.
Exactly!
I try to get the kids to have a dust bath at least once a week !!
I have those same chickens and i hug them when i have time.
My chickens find lose dirt under a bush , tree or some times under the front porch. They are covered in dust after they are done.The soil is made of a clay where I live. The is also little rocks in it
My chickens just sit on the side and never bathe in it. But they will dust bathe on the floor of their pen
The chicken whisperer
Mine like to hang out under my pine trees and take their dirt baths there
Don't use Peat Moss. Sand and compost would work.
definitely sand*! 👌🏻
(and diatomaceous earth if pests are an issue*)
Peat moss dust: causes respitory issues for all birds
Perlite: literally just toxic to ingest and those chickens are for sure eating it.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for boring both issues.
Basically making a potting mix for houseplants.
Peat moss also contains natural iodine, which acts as an antibiotic and antifungal. I use it in my plant propagations.
Nice chicken Dad! 😀👍🏼
I've heard of people mixing flea powder into chickens dust baths.
Any man who takes that much care with their animals is a real man. If this is the love and care he is giving his livestock, I can only imagine the love and care he is giving his family.
You’re dope, dude. Keep it up xoxoxo😊
Love this comment, much love thank you!
Since chickens are dinosaurs, imagine a T-Rex having a Dust Bath!
Yes, I know T-Rex didn't have feathers, in the current thinking.
There actually is a good chance that the T. Rex had feathers. It’s been discovered that other closely related species had feathers as well.
@@CuppaLiber-teathen add the fact that feathers don't fossilize well makes no concrete evidence saying they didnt
The adults didn't have much of any feathers, except for maybe displays. Makes me sad. The babies in the other hand have were probably fluff balls.
The best comment haha
Some other dinos did have feathers-- paleontology excavations of fossils, frozen baby mamoth had long hair etc.
We salute You on your remarkable resourcefulness!
I add hardwood ash to mine. The pH helps get rid of fleas.
someone gave me a bag of peat moss for my garden, i said it looked really good for a chicken bath, and now i see you say that
sand is best**
actually works off dander, helps by being more abrasive, and is uniformly sized*!!
(maybe add a lil diatomaceous earth*)
Chickens are definitely more useful than a girlfriend 😂
The perlite also kills the pests by destroying their exoskeleton
I like the way you looped your video, well done 🤘
You should add flour and cornstarch to the dust bath. Ya know, just to get a head start.
Since perlite is volcanic glass, I wouldn't be comfortable adding it to the bath. I like a bit of fireplace ash made from clean wood and some diatomaceous earth. The concrete mixing bin is perfect. I have limited space so I put mine in a doggy tent to keep it dry.
my chickens never use any dust bath i give them. they prefer to dig their own holes.
Sounds like they just need some chicken sweaters
we used to have a portion of sandy soil in our yard and the chickens loved to bathe in them
I see my local wild turkeys do this sometimes, I was wondering what they're up to.
Ditch the peralite it’s not digestible
They eat rocks for grit, I don’t think those are digestible either 🤷♂️
@@earthnailsandtails perlite is volcanic glass. I don't think I would want them eating glass.
I dont think its eating thats the problem more like inhaling glass
I love chickens😊
Chickens are mobile plants, check!
I can tell he loves this shit!❤ good job take care of them girls 🎉😅
Piedmont that's what's up bro little bit of compost little bit of Piedmont yeah there it is then you hit him with diatomaceous earth
They are so cute
Gotta love those evolved T-rexes.
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It's like me & my mud baths
We had really sandy soil and my chicken would make these pits and roll around in them all the time
They probably loved it! Ours is clay 😅
Instructions unclear planted a few chickens turned into eggs
Do not use pearlite like that. It is basically glass and is dangerous because it breaks down and will get inhaled by your chickens. What goes into lungs never comes out. That goes for all animals including humans .
I agree with u, I dont understand how he doesn't know this.
Not to mention that birds don’t know not to eat it. Ducks and chickens will eat pearlite and other pieces of plastic garbage at any given opportunity.
@@DustyHoney yikes didn't think of that. They will be eating glass 😱
I remember reading years ago that it's also carcinogenic.
My chickeny are self sufficient...they make their own dust bath..
Please use coco coir instead of peat moss. Peat moss harvesting is incredibly harmful to the environment. Coco coir is identical in its properties compared to peat moss but it isn’t as acid as peat moss is.
I’ve looked into coco it’s not identical. Has similar properties. It would probably be suitable for chickens. It may be more “sustainable” but takes significantly more resources to create and ship around the globe.
When you’re so suburban you have to artificially make your dirt 😂😂😂
Aww the girls!
You just save me so much money!!!Thank you🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Chickens are so cool 🐓
He forgot the diatomaceous earth.
And that's how chicks are born. From the fertilized soil
Might I suggest trying something other than peat moss? Industrial Peat Moss harvesting of destroys peat bogs which are extremely important biomes for biodiversity and to lock away carbon
Awesome! Have a 2 year old bag of peat moss that's hard as a rock! Gonna put it in the chicken run and let the girls break it down! Win win!
My chickens are free roam and like to dig holes to roll around in XD
yes they do haha
I use wood ash and DE and my girls love it.
Excellent Mate😊.
Aussie.
They dig holes and don't need kitty boxes
I let my chickens roam free in my backyard, and they love finding patches of dried dirt and rolling around in them
I need a dust bath
Those are some happy chicks 🎉
Chickens are dinosaurs change my mind
An old tire filled with sand works great too, or just a big sand box for large groups.❤
thumbs down for not showing enough chickens bathing. I appreciate the lesson but i came to see chickens bathe.
Cool video Peat Moss is an absolute badass oil absorber we used to use it on car fire scenes after the fire was out of course lol
You go boy❤
Me, living on a flat on a big city: *taking notes *
@Phil ❤❤❤
my chicken loves sand, fine white sand
Diatomaceous earth dust baths with sad dirt mix seems to worth very well for my girls….no red mite
They always did it in a sandy patch of our driveway and they liked it
Wow. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing !!
i love chickens, but coyotes got all but two
Love this thank you for the info
Soooo.... Mel's mix raised garden soil. 1/3 of each, peat moss, compost, and vermiculite/pearlite. Good to know.
Great video so when will I be invited to a chicken dinner, stop him up and I'll buy him to eat
They literally use this as a back scratcher, not knowing why it works so long, but knowing that it does
Chickens have what is called a uropygial gland or preen gland. They use the oils secreted from that gland to waterproof their feathers and to keep their beaks and feet soft. As for the dust bath? That is to make their feathers less habitable to pests. Chickens can and will make their own dust baths, but you can encourage it to help keep your chickens pest free.
A little diatomaceous earth helps a ton with pests too.