Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bath time at the zoo



I've never bathed a chicken before. Didn't even know you could. We did research on the Internet about it first. Apparently there is a specific way to do it. We recently got a new batch of chickens. We selected one of each kind just to have a variety. The silky, which we named Fluffy, is supposed to be white and, of course, fluffy. She wasn't very white or fluffy...and to be honest, she smelled a little bad. The bath went fine. She was calm and almost seemed to enjoy the process. Silkies have dark blue skin so she looked pretty weird when she was all wet. As instructed on the Internet, we used a blow dryer on High/Cool until she was completely dry.

Fluffy looks and smells much better now.

Clockwise from top left: Pepper, Red, Fluffy, Pinky Lee, Pip