[Chuckles]

I was at my vets yesterday with my silkie flo having her stitches out from having her crop emptied....the vet was impressed how well she was looking considering she needs some meat on her bones but said she'd be better with her coat/feathers/fluff having a good brush!!!   Never heard of brushing chickens...should they be brushed and if so is there a special brush you have to get? 

[Foxy]

Oh my!!! are you sure he wasn't pulling your leg?

[Chuckles]

She sounded very serious!!!!

[GrannieAnnie]

I've never brushed a chicken, but I must admit, Enery our silkie cockerel has lovely fluffy feathers, perhaps I should give him a brush now and again!!??

[Doodle]

A baby brush to give her a good fluffing? I washed a blow dried Fraggle the silkie, she enjoyed it, she could do with a brush now. Are you sure you didn't miss hear and the vet called her a chicken brush.

[Chuckles]

She'd better not have called my little flo a chicken brush!!!!      No definately didn't miss hear her, think that may have been what she was refering to, she's not as fluffy looking as most silkies...she's going for the 'dragged through a hedge backwards' look!!! 

Giving her a wash and a blow dry might just be taking it too far for her, think I'll leave her to preen herself...to me she's perfect as she is!!!! 

Just taken a look at her in the garden - think she's opted for the spiky look today...she's been in the flower beds and got her head all wet...little madam!!!

[Doodle]

Tee Hee!! Think i might invent a chicken brush.
Just out of interest, how long were her stitches in for? Have a chicken with some and was going to leave them in for 5 days ish

[Foxy]

I would leave them in for about 8 -10 days. If they do split slightly after you can use "superglue"

[Aunt Sally]

Stitches do get pulled out by the chooks sometimes but the dissolving ones don't dissolve well - birds have a different type of white blood cells to mammals and they don't do the job so well - so the stitches may need removing.

[Doodle]

Cool thanks! She has removable ones and pretty sure she can't get to them. Not the neatest of stitches.....hope she doesn't want to wear her bikini this summer.

[poultrygeist]

Isn't it obvious ?

What you need is a feather duster   

Rob

[Tattyanne456]

Call your vet back and ask her. She wont mind. I read on here somewhere that a fool isn't someone who asks, but someone who doesn't!  I'm not calling you a fool tho! It just stuck in my head and I thought it was quite true!

[Doodle]

There was noooooooo vet......
As for feather dusters, can't be scaring the poor chicks behaving like Ken Dodd!
Ken Dodds dad's dog's dead

[poultrygeist]

pleased to hear Clay Cross is as mad as ever 

Good luck with your stiched chook.

Rob

[Sarah Mitchell]

I took advice from a friend who shows her chickens as I wanted to wash my white wyandotte bantam hen Winnie as she had fleas and a very messy bum... she is feisty (understatement - I'm sure she sharpens her beak...) and I was all prepared to get very wet... but the moment I plonked her feet in some lukewarm water she was so relaxed. 

My friend said she had to hold her hens up so their heads didn't go under the water (they drown easily apparently) and I had to do the same because she went to sleep... !

After a good rinsing Winnie was treated to a set and blowdry and she loved it. She looked fab... for about ten minutes before she got muddy and had a poo but she was flea free at least.

Happy days