Chicken Dust
Chicken dust. I don’t think it’s related in any way to fairy dust. Except that it seems to show up over night. I’m sure that anyone else who has had chickens knows what I’m talking about. But probably normal chicken keepers don’t keep them in the kitchen! Every morning I have to wipe down all the counters and appliances. If it was fairy dust, I would have flown around the galaxy several times already!
The chickens like the dust. I’ve seen Willhi’s chickens take dust baths. Yesterday one of the RI Reds scratched out a hole in the shavings and then started kicking and fluffing herself. She’d bury her head under the shavings and give a contented twitter. The other chicks came over and walked over her and pecked at the shavings on her back but she seemed in such ecstasy that she didn’t even move.
I’m sure sure that chick really enjoyed her dust bath. All of the chicks are looking very uncomfortable. They’ve got feathers sticking out everywhere. They kind of look like a cross between a powder puff and a pin cushion!
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