I noticed today that my tiny white silkie has little red mites on her head.its too cold to give her a bath.. I dusted everyone and the coop but was wondering if the cold would kill the mites??
I have had a feather here, a few more there, a handfull here and today EVERYWHERE....feathers from most of my flock.. never had any molt so im wondering if thats what they are doing NOW...
will they molt this time of year? no one is " naked " yet but if this keeps up they will be .. poor dear's
I see a lot of pics with really nice looking birds, most have nice bright red faces. mine do not.. im wondering if they are missing something in their diet? they are pretty healthy but have kinda a flakey thing going on there cambs and waddles..
whats up with that?
ETA : they are all laying...
ok I dusted everyone and everything with Seven.. put some DE in every nook and cranny.. Will wait a day or 2 and empty all bedding and shavings and burn them. I see no bugs in the coop just on the birds and not every bird has them. I can see BOTH lice ( ewwwww ) and tiny redish mites on the...
get ride of bugs on my flock. Seems I have wild birds getting in the run and enjoying the scratch along with my flock so I have bugs now. I see red mites and what Im guessing lice GAG on most of my birds ..ewww Ok so how do I get ride of them? I dusted once and still see them. I have not...
Ok so i was looking the girls over and BUGS.. little redish ones so Im guessing mites!! Gag anyways ( scratch ) i dusted EVERYONE and EVERYTHING with seven dust ( itch ) and was wondering if I need to toss out my eggs? if so for how long and starting when? :barnie Im think the new all day...
Im going.. cant wait ! Im on the hunt for some nice Marans,a MUST have black silkie and some bantam cochins Lemon blue's and black... and anything else i see ...Im taking a trailer just in case...
oh and staying the weekend..