Wash your show fowls

Chukar · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:19 am

I reckon they would be. It is fascinating what you use to wash your show fowl with I have not hear about it before so...

Do you make it up for your self and then use the leftover for your show fowl?
How do you wash your show fowl with your beauty cream?
Have you thought of adding karite butter, sweet almond oil to help with anti ageing?
Where do you buy the Donkey's milk?
What ratio of Donkey's milk to honey do you use?

Very interested in how you wash your show fowl with your beauty cream mix?

starkravenmad · **Joined:** Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:15 pm **Posts:** 5

Thanks oaklands and sebducks for the advice you were very helpful and I appreciate that

OakA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:10 am

As Sebducks points out, LUX is probably about the best soap you can use.
Be sure to rinse well and remove all soap residue.
If using a blue horse shampoo and the fowls turn out blue you are using to much shampoo.
The lemon juice will help whiten if used in the rinse water and will also help kill the soap residue.
I well remembera product called "Magic Silver White " that was popular in the 70's with the "blue rinse set", it would highlight the colour, make a black blacker, white whiter and so on but if you used to much it would turn them a lovely shade of LILAC.
Many a show dog, goat, chook or horse was this pretty shade until the owners learnt how much to use.

starkravenmad · **Joined:** Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:15 pm **Posts:** 5

Thanks again I will try the Lux and see how it goes for me. I will also try the lemon juice had not heard of that so I have learnt allot so far

Hens and Hobbits · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:50 am

We use Apple Cider Vinegar as a hair rinse; 1/3 of a cup of Apple cider Vinegar to 1 litre of water and occasionally brew up a herbal hair rinse with rosemary and sage for dark hair, or camomile and marigold for fair hair; a bouquet garni, a small square of muslin tied filled of 2 tablespoons either herb combination and tied, which is infused in a teapot with 500ml of boiling water for a couple of hours, allowed to cool and 500ml of Apple Cider Vinegar added and mixed well.

It makes our hair and even the bald heads in our family shiny, helps control dandruff and I was wondering you could use it to rinse chooks with and perhaps use the same herb combinations for dark and light feathered birds?

Chicken Hawk · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:01 pm

Wool wash is the only way to go.

MartyM · **Joined:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:23 am **Posts:** 14

Why is that Chicken Hawk? is it the best all round product?

OakA · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:00 am

I have heard of some breeders using 'wool wash'.
Maybe it is because wool is not agressively washed and tumbled, you use only a light squeezing action when hand washing or a gentle cycle when machine washing, if 'wool wash' is capable of gently removing and cleaning dirt from wool without harsh chemicals then it would be just as capable of doing so gently from feathers.
Wool has to be washed in a gentle manner and with a soap not a strong detergent , very similar to the requirements of washing a fowl.
Similarly it must be rinsed thoroughly to leave no residue, if it rinses out thoroughly in a simple and easy manner, this also is what is required when washing a fowl.

MartyM · **Joined:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:23 am **Posts:** 14

Good explanation cheers Oaklands I will try it now

starkravenmad · **Joined:** Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:15 pm **Posts:** 5

I may try it too sounds like it will give the best finish

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