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Use the science to come to a conclusion. It is all here, people have provided links and plenty of scientific information.

Good point, when you have a well draining dust bath you are extra safe. However I don’t know anyone using a non porous vessel as a dust bath that would leave it full of water for days, especiaply one with 100% hard wood ash, that’s what would be needed to make lye.

All dust can be harmful to bird, however you weight out the benefits. Sand/ dirt is dusty and potentially harmful but so is ammonia in dropping so they use dirt and sand and wood chips as bedding. Birds make a great deal of dust in their coop for bedding and outside playing in dirt, how you...

Chickens will peck are the large pieces while dust bathing and charcoal is good for them. Do a google search it is very interesting. Also I forgot to add that charcoal will help reduce the spread of foot pad dermatitis.

I do too. I had typed out a comment that listed the pH according to the of type of wood and which has the highest pH after burning. Willow is 50% but getting willow ash wet isn’t going to be POTASH, either you expose it to heat or you mix it in a jar with a lot of water and let it sit for days...

That is so cute. 🐓💨

Don’t let this comment scare anyone reading out of using wood ash in a dust bath. They left out that you have to boil the wood ash, with soft water for about an hour and skim off the lye and you will have to do this more than a few times to gather enough lye to saponify soap. My background...