BATHING YOUR BIRDS

[Guest TAMMY_1]

WHAT WOULD BE THE LATEST DAY OF THE WEEK ,BEFORE A RACE  ON SATURDAY , WOULD YOU LET YOUR BIRDS HAVE A BATH.

[Guest jason]

I only let them bath on sundays (day after race) I think it helps them to relax after the race and I always use warm water with bath salts.

[Guest shadow]

Bathe on Sundays

[Guest]

Sunday, with warm water and Malt Vinegar in the water, and they get locked in the aviary till tea time.

[Guest]

Agree that usual bath day is Sunday, but if my birds wanted a bath after that, they'd get one.

 

Reminds me of the joke about the vicar who was asked if he believed in sex before marraige. "Only if it doesn't delay the ceremony" was his reply.

 

;D So provided the birds would be dried off well before race-marking time, ;D  anytime is a good time ...  

[carl]

sundays and thursdays for me.nice and relaxing bath on a sunday and a bath on thursday sees them setting there feathers all correctly for the race

[robert.sutherland]

It all sounds good adivce to me TAMMY1 I let them bath sunday to Thursday like the idea of warm water and salts          but my mate again who beats me hands down  never lets them bath                                                                        .yours in sport        BOB

[snowy]

sunday,

with the smelliest garlic water around,

;D

[Diamond dave]

Hiya Sbelbin.

Interesting post re bathing with malt vinegar - just interested to know why malt vinegar, does it have any properties that benefit the feather quality or is it used to keep the mites and lice away?

[Chatrace]

Thursday bath if I know its not going to have a chance for rain. If its gonna rain ,I want all the bloom on them I can get

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READ AN ARTICLE IN BHW YEARS AGO ,  CANT REMEMBER THE FANCIERS NAME,BUT HE LET HIS WIDOW COCKS BATH ON FRIDAY MORNING, HE STOOD AND WATCHED HIS DOO'S DRY OFF AND USUALLY THE FIRST DOO BONE DRY AND BACK UP AND FLYING WAS HIS POOLER,9 TIMES OUT OF10 HE WAS RIGHT

NEVER TRIED IT THO

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OUR PREFERENCE IS BOILING WATER STRAIGHT FROM THE KETTLE , THE DOO'S LOVE IT   MY DAD FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS BY ACCIDENT IN THE WINTER WHEN FILLING THE BATH,HE PUT HOT WATER IN ,WENT TO GET SOME COLD AND WHEN HE WENT BACK TO THE BATH ALL THE DOO'S WERE IN IT        TRY IT

[jimmy white]

hot water bath sunday after race,, cold water bath friday after exercise morning[,if its sunny][ theyll rest at piece and quiet all day after that b4 they see the hens   [i know a lot of fanciers wouldnd do that ,but it paid off for me] :)

[andy]

COLD  BATH  THURSDAY NIGHT OR FRIDAY MORNING DONT THINK IT MATTERS WHICH..........WARM BATH SATURDAY AFTER RACE ONCE THE HENS REMOVED. PUB ON SUNDAY!!!!!

[Guest speckled]

;D ;D Well mine have a bath on sunday, :-/ sorry no hot water only what comes from the hose pipe, so i think ya could say thay garden temp. ;D ;D ;D Al;so thay have a bath mid week wednesday after thay have flown the hour thay need to be a luxury.All bahte aswell, as i think thay now its the start of the first bit of race mix day as well lol ;D ;D ;D ;D.Speck?

[Mike Lycett]

Hiya Sbelbin.

Interesting post re bathing with malt vinegar - just interested to know why malt vinegar, does it have any properties that benefit the feather quality or is it used to keep the mites and lice away?

 

Dave - Certainly I can guarantee the latter.  None of our birds ever have lice/mite & we bath in vinegar 52 weeks a year - certainly doesn't harm condition either

[Guest slugmonkey]

I give bath on basketing day and leave the pan in all day I try to watch to see who bathes if a bird dosent bathe I dont send them I can also tell how tough a race they had by looking at condition of feet on race day upon arrival

[Guest TAMMY_1]

OUR PREFERENCE IS BOILING WATER STRAIGHT FROM THE KETTLE , THE DOO'S LOVE IT   MY DAD FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS BY ACCIDENT IN THE WINTER WHEN FILLING THE BATH,HE PUT HOT WATER IN ,WENT TO GET SOME COLD AND WHEN HE WENT BACK TO THE BATH ALL THE DOO'S WERE IN IT        TRY IT

 

DOES THE BOILING WATER FROM THE KETTLE NOT BURN THEM  ????

[Guest]

Diamond Dave, yes as Mike says (its Mike that gave me the tip) it keeps lice etc away from the birds. And I always use water out of the kettle and point my hose pipe at them with warm water, as they love to have the water sprinking on them.

[Guest]

I've always used cold water. Quite wary of using hot water.

 

Hot water is used to defeather birds ... easily and quickly.

[Guest]

NOTE: Posts on baths on "BASKETING DAY" thread, same board.

[Mike Lycett]

we use lukewarm water

[pigeonchested]

lukewarm water with some pottasium permagnate crystals one sunday and bicarbonate of soda the next.

[jimmy white]

i used to put buckets of hot water out the tap in their bath, before i could get the bucket of cold water in , all the birds were in the bath, i would say the water was" hand hot"[i could put my hand in the water] steam rising like a turkish bath, all in it with there wings lying open in the water and enjoying it, weve got to remember that a pigeons temperature is about 104 compared to ours 98  [ours is 104 when its a bad race ;D ;D], but my gooness i was surprised they went in it,when it was that hot, but they seemed to enjoy it :)

[Guest speckled]

Well ya all be given ya birds a spa bath next lol. ;D ;D ;D with load of bubbles,. ;D ;D Lol pigeonchested is pottasuim permagnate that  purple crystalls thay ya put in the bath that makes it turn red,? :-/ :-/ dont that Oxergante the water for fish?????. The bicarbonated soda is yes agree good for the bath, :X  as the first thing a bird does when have a bath is drink the water :-/  & the bicarb is good for white wattles & firms the droppings up.Lol Speck :X :X