Have you ever seen a chicken sun bathing? Have you seen them toss dust up under their feathers?

How Can Wood Ash Help Chickens?

Chickens love to find a dry dusty area to roll around in. This is healthy for them. Birds are prone to parasites like lice and mites. Providing a nice place for them to dust bathe gives them a natural way to control the parasites.

I like to take this a step further. In the chicken run I have an area that I occasionally build small fires. The fires burn to ash and cool off. It doesn’t take long for the girls to find this little slice of heaven. They gather ’round like it’s a day at the Spa!