Wash your show fowls

idealmalays · **Joined:** Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:27 am **Posts:** 2

I use johnsons baby wash for washing all fowl its great and non irritant to the fowl

macar · **Joined:** Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:04 pm **Posts:** 9

Oaklands wrote:

As Sebducks points out, LUX is probably about the best soap you can use.
Be sure to rinse well and remove all soap residue.
If using a blue horse shampoo and the fowls turn out blue you are using to much shampoo.
The lemon juice will help whiten if used in the rinse water and will also help kill the soap residue.
I well remembera product called "Magic Silver White " that was popular in the 70's with the "blue rinse set", it would highlight the colour, make a black blacker, white whiter and so on but if you used to much it would turn them a lovely shade of LILAC.
Many a show dog, goat, chook or horse was this pretty shade until the owners learnt how much to use.

Yes I was guilty of that, using to much "Magic Silver White"

Turned my best white hen blue,
I was very careful the next time I used it in the rinse water,

idealmalays · **Joined:** Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:27 am **Posts:** 2

So they were blue rinse hens :lol:

Whittier · **Joined:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:19 am **Posts:** 1

I as told the crystals in the water give the feather a high shine?

BIDDIES · **Joined:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:19 pm **Posts:** 1

Yes Whittier its great to use

weizz · **Joined:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:08 am **Posts:** 3

Do you always have to blow dry them or can I put them out in the warm sun?

julie at serenity · **Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:06 pm

If it is a sunny warm day...yes you can put them in the sun after a gentle towel dry....I picked up collapsable wire pens about 1 metre square, the same high, from Bunnings...sold as "compost pens"...put a bit of weldmesh on top (hinged). they make great pens for drying chookies after a wash.

weizz · **Joined:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:08 am **Posts:** 3

Thats real good because I don;t own a hair dryer so I would of hard to go out and buy one [smilie=thanks.gif]

for that Julie

EasterEggz · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 7:42 am **Posts:** 2

What no hair dryer I would be lost with out mine :-D

Even on warm days I still blow dry the show fowl as I do not want them to get a chill

weizz · **Joined:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:08 am **Posts:** 3

I am got a girl so I don't need one and my hair is very short like a shaved head

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