Well I guess you could, I havent tried it before. Has your chicken been sick that it would give him loose poops? I notice with my chickens it comes out solid enough that it falls to the ground and I have never noticed poo on their feathers. Does he roost on a low roost at night where his bottom would be sitting in droppings? I would also worry about bathing a chicken and getting the feathers wet that it might harm them at this time of the year. I'm sure some of the others will have a better answer than I do. If it was me and he wasent sick I'd leave him be...

Absolutely...my kids wash there Meat Pen project every year before they show them at the fair. They use Wool-lite and the white feathers are so bright they hurt your eyes. My son Chris won Grand Champion Broiler Chicken last year because it was so clean. The judge said that it was his deciding factor...LOL!

Depending on where you live and how cold it is...I would make sure you dry him good. They can get very cold...

This reminds me of a frozen rooster story. A friend of mine said when he was a kid they had a rooster that got caught outside in a freezing rain. When his dad found him he was almost completely frozen solid. The head was hard it was so cold...almost like a block of ice. They set him next to the woodstove and as the ice melted off the rooster...he started to turn his head. He completely thawed out and they fed him in the house leftover corn bread. When he finished eating...they took him to the barn where all his girls welcomed him back with open wings...

I don't know how true that story is...but my friend swares it happened.

Brian

Farther down the list of topics you will see one about hurt rooster. My tommy has been in doors for about 10 days now and doing very well other then the poop on his tail feathers.
I will try giving him a bath tomorrow, since he is still in doors he won't get cold.

I had to bathe all my chickens a few years ago, they had a lot of lice caught by getting 'free' chickens from neighbors who didn't know how to take care of them right. I used flea shampoo for dogs on them. Just make sure to dry the rooster off thoroughly, you can probably use a hair dryer if you put it on low heat. Birds aren't usually bothered by noise like that. Or towel him off first. He might have internal parasites if he's chronically got a dirty butt.