Recent content by meringues

Hi everyone, Sorry - this was ages ago, but I just thought I should let you know that I tried the Home brand surface spray and it worked perfectly! I changed the wood shavings in their nest boxes and sprayed the nests, perches and walls of the coop twice a week for about 3 weeks and the mites...

Thanks everyone. I'm pretty sure it's Dermanyssus gallinae (what we just call Red Mite in Australia) that I have. I'm cleaning the coop out every couple of days and dusting the coop and the chooks with lots of Pestene, so I'll just keep doing that. As for the garden, I don't want to use anything...

Yikes! So is there any way I can get them out of my garden/ lawn??

Thanks @Egghead_Jr ! I read somewhere that the mites can live for 6 months in an empty coop, so was a bit worried about how long they'd stay in the garden. Hopefully we'll get our first frost soon and that will knock them out! I can keep dusting the chooks with the powder, but not really the...

I cleaned out our chook house a few days ago and discovered there was a decent infestation of mites in the nest boxes, so, without reading up on what to do, I put the chook house on the lawn (it's portable) and hosed it off then left it in the sun to dry... Then dusted it and the chooks with...

Lol... 'Red patches of Death'.... I love it. Ok. I am no longer in denial. I will just accept it's a cockerel! I'm in Canberra, Australia.

Before I give up all hope, is there any chance it could be a hen of a different breed (black sex link?) or a poorly coloured BCM?? Or does the look of the comb mean it's definitely a BCM cockerel? The people I got it from we're pretty certain it was a girl, even when I sent them a photo a couple...

Ok, thanks . Darn - I was looking forward to some lovely brown eggs! I have an araucana girl, so might see if I can breed an olive ever before I try to find a new home for him!

Hi all, I'm new here! I bought this young chook as a 3 week old girl. 'She' is now 11wks and looking a bit like a boy - decent comb and wattles, long legs and upright stature, and red and greenish feathers appearing on the back. What do you think?? Thanks![/IMG]