#dustbathing

[thomas--bombadil]

Have you ever seen chickens dustbathing?

It's quite mesmerizing :)

They were so happy; I spent quite a while watching them just enjoying their lives. . .

#midwest #winter #chicken #chicken video #birds #chickens #chicken eggs #cottagecore #farm animals #farm living #farmcore #dustbathing #bird

[alcnfr]

Sylvia is trying to combine dust-bathing and Sun-bathing in one experience...

#nature #my photography #pet chickens #nature photography #hens #backyard nature #chickens #poultry #sunbathing #dustbathing #free range

[pangur-and-grim]

dusk under the lilac trees

#Tallgeese #Wormbecca #I've been listening to this biweekly avian flu webinar for Ontario and following the maps of infected zones #and it FINALLY looks like things are calming down! #they said all along that the increasing heat + end of spring migration would help and I guess we're seeing that play out now #so the girls got their freedom back. they were so so happy #immediately went to their favourite dustbathing location and entered a dirt bliss #then went around eating all the fresh vegetation #it hurts that Anzu had to pass while they were still locked up. I know she hated being restricted to the run #if you'd held on one more moth you could've had freedom

[superfluffychickens]

Snuggy wuggy

#they were all dustbathing together and the hens kept pushing and squishing Zeke and he was too polite to do anything about it #chicken #chickens #backyard chickens #chickenblr #farmcore #pet chicken

[makenna-made-this]

Ah, spring in new england

Not live, laugh, leghorning this weather^

#live laugh leghorn #nothing says springtime in new england like a snowstorm #the birds are Not Having It #chickens #tiny fluffy dinosaurs #the BEST animals #chickenblr #nature #snow #the poor tree buds #pls ignore how Filthy Winry is i just refilled their dustbath and she doesn't know the meaning of moderation

[elgaladwen]

Hens enjoying the shade and sun, July 5th

#I dunno where the other two were #but they probably had sime nice shade on the other side of the fence #I never get tired of them dustbathing #hens #summer #chickens #hens of summer #chickens of tumblr

[radioves]

your new dog seems wonderful

thbank you he has committed at least two [2] crimes in 47 states and he is wanted by the government but he is yuore friend :]

#i found him dustbathing in a pile of spare asbestos and he bit 3 of my toes off as thanks #avi get out of my inbox #[.ASK]

[whataboutfractions]

you know for all the horrible, quietly debilitating mental ailments that wore him slowly but surely down day by day. mighty at least got to experience a bliss otherwise known only by chickens rolling in dirt every time he took a bath

#chickens dustbathing...him waterbathing(??)...cinematic parallels

[lxghtbound]

almost a minute of chimkin dustbath

#ooc #chicken posting #i lov them #my grandpa thought they were burying themselves #now im imagining a very stressed hunter #explaining to ari that the chickens are burying themselves #and we need to save them #but theyre just dustbathing

[mollywalks]

Bonus Bit - Dust Wiggles

Molly got second walkies today, but I was caught up reading and didn’t record most of it. But we got a dust bath!

#cat videos #molly the cat #walking the cat #dustbath #cats #bonus bit #whoops #should have posted this earlier #it’s still the same day tho #did I post this as a gif? #I think this is a gif #tumblr mobile confuses me #cat gif #i guess

[hedgehog-moss]

My self-imposed chore for today was to clean the donkey's shelter + 1/4th of the pasture, use the most composted manure that's basically already soil for my potato growing bags, and use the rest to shut down (and fertilise) one of the llamas' bathtubs.

See, the llamas dig these grassless circles with their pointy camelid nails so they can dustbathe like giant gerbils to keep parasites away. I fully accept that it is a healthy and normal llama behaviour but I wish they'd dig one bathtub and stick to it. Instead, every few months they abandon their bathtub and go dig a new one, and never seem to wonder how the sterile moon craters they leave behind end up magically fertile and grassy again.

It's not magic! It's me. I keep moving your (excellent, nutritious, full of plant seeds) poop from one spot to the other so the pasture doesn't become a polka-dotted graveyard of former bathtubs. I understand that if you were wild llamas you would abandon the bathtub and not return for months or years so grass would have time to grow back (I have read Pampe's 600-page manifesto on the health & environmental benefits of wild roaming), but surely you could notice your habitat has changed, and change your behaviour accordingly.

Use your abandoned bathtubs as latrines, for example, so I no longer have to move the poop where it is needed. Or at the very least set up your latrines uphill from the bathtubs? so I can push my extremely heavy wheelbarrows of manure down the slope? 🙏 There are options.

(In the foreground of this video you can see a former bathtub that was covered in manure a few months ago and has begun to heal, and in the background, Pampy happily starting a new one.)

Another thing: there is no need to act like I'm committing a crime when I cover an abandoned bathtub with manure. I only do it once I'm sure everyone has moved on from this one and yet it often prompts Pampelune (Bathtub Administrator) to start digging several new ones like she's convinced I have been gripped by a mindless bathtub-confiscating frenzy and if she doesn't outpace me she'll never get to feel the soft caress of dirt on her wool again.

Sometimes it even triggers protest movements.

Not really—I thought this was a protest involving a lie-in, or maybe a lock-on. In a complex triangle formation around the terminated bathtub (and I was going to say, that's not how this works. You're supposed to glue yourself to the ground of your bathtub to obstruct my work and refuse to budge even when I start shovelling manure on your heads. Protesting after the fact and from a safe distance is pointless and performative)—but then I realised my interpretation was clearly wrong. This was a llama mourning rite to honour last summer's bathtub, and the triangle symbolism simply represents the three stages of life, and the fact that everything, even beloved dust bathing spots, has a beginning, heyday, and end.

#crawling along

[puncivilian]

Sometimes people on chicken Reddit are just a bit worried about their new friends and not quite dialed in to chicken behaviour yet, and sometimes they're just. Like 'did you even look up chickens before you got them? Look at a single care article? Anything?' Levels of stupidity

#example one: my chick is on its side! is it dying?! is it having a seizure?! it did a weird kicking thing! #buddy it's sunbathing/dustbathing youre fine #it does look weird so thats understandable #but like. cmon how do so many of yall not know what a crop is #'whats this weird lumb on its chest? its only on one side!' THATS THE CROP

[thepipsqueakery]

The end is the best part, I swear! No clickbait! 🐐💫 Ella wants me to remind everyone that the auction wraps up tomorrow. She said she wants lots of money, so we can buy her more DIRT! (Shh 🤫 Don't tell her) #goat #goats #notclickbait #fundraiserauction #artisinaldirt #dustbath https://www.instagram.com/p/CgF-GqjjysJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#goat #goats #notclickbait #fundraiserauction #artisinaldirt #dustbath

[mellifexfarm]

by God we are dustbathing

#comet #moss

[superfluffychickens]

What are they whispering about? Are they just being all lovey-dovey or are they plotting something nefarious?

#the true answer is they’re zoned out and in a dustbathing trance but that’s not as funny #chicken #chickens #backyard chickens #chickenblr #farmcore #pet chicken #Jersey giant chicken #Brahma chicken #Ripley the chicken #Zeke the chicken

[kedreeva]

She takes a dust bath while I shower, so she isn't getting into mischief unsupervised. Once she's down for her bath, I can put something on top to contain the spray of sand and she doesn't even notice it.

Also look how much bigger!

I'm going to have to break out the kitty litter dustbath soon.

#bug the peahen #peafowl #peachicks #birds #my pets