What's the reasoning for washing with soap so often? Im only asking because I watch them regularly drink from standing rain water. in fact they seem to prefer it dirty. They race for sandy dirty puddles.
I have been using two five gallon buckets with horizontal nipples for my flock. Recently we integrated some new pullets and I wanted to make sure there was extra feed a water for them to be able to grab what they need while being chased around, so I put some bowls of water out. I noticed...