vaseline can be applied to a small wound to keep a chicken from bleeding (band-aids are mighty hard to apply to feathers).
you can keep other chickens from pecking at the wound by adding essential oils to the vaseline.
but don't use tea tree oil. tea tree oil can be toxic to chickens!
bathing a chicken covered in vaseline and tea tree oil is damn near impossible.
apparently dish soap can remove crude oil from bird feathers, but it cannot remove vaseline. neither does dr. bronner's lavender magic soap.
i'm pretty sure this is not what lennie would do - turn the master bath sink into a chicken spa.
i now have one freaked out chicken, who hates me, and looks like she was caught in an oil slick.
she's also lonely because she is separated from the other chicks. and even though we gave her a small stuffed monkey to snuggle with, she is still squawking. if the tea tree oil doesn't kill her, the stress might.
she smells fantastic, though.
So you spent your birthday bathing and possibly poisoning a chicken? Awesome.
ReplyDeleteI am going to worry if you get out the blow dryer and curling iron!
ReplyDeleteyes, jared. birthdays change as you get older. and i'm pretty sure i didn't poison her. she seems fine now - ticked off, but healthy.
ReplyDeletemom, i already did blow dry her. how else do you dry a wet chicken?
Well that's WHY she is ticked off...you put her through a hurricane!
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures -