Victor Justin Rhodes explains why chickens need a covered dust bath when it rains. He warns against leaving the lid on at night and suggests using a small ram shawl as a removable cover to keep the dust dry and usable.
We've got the chickens a dust bath. This is crucial when it's been really wet and they can't really make one in their run. We forget to put the lid on it at night. We're gonna see if we can't put it in the shawl. How's that, ladies? Don't spoil it, don't soil it. Otherwise we might need to make a dust bath shawl, which I think the ram shawl would do. It's a small shawl that's just a lid. That might work. Do we have a taker?
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
