answer:Chickens do NOT like water, at all! I used to keep exotic poultry and showed my birds. Once in awhile they needed to be ‘dipped’ for mites. You mix Hexol in a bucket of water and dunk them in up to their necks and make them sit for a minute or two. Not happy chickens. Then you wrap them in a towel and they literally keel over and look like they are dying, but, after a few minutes they run off again. lol This is not cruel, it is HOW you manage mites and prepare birds for showing. Beleive it or not, showing poultry is a big scene. :-)