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After careful management for three years with no problems, I suddenly have lice on my chickens. I first noticed bugs on some chicks, I dusted them with Y-Tex/Gardstar Poultry Dust which contains permethrin. Most of the chicks did not survive, the one who did is doing well and is bug free. I...

I have an adult hen, at least 3 years old, who has been having increasingly worse respiratory distress for several days. - I noticed her mouth gaping open when she breathed but she was otherwise behaving normally. No visible evidence of gapeworm so I treated with Duramycin-10 which she has...

Two days ago I noticed one of my hens was not quite herself. I had hoped to catch her when she went to lay in the nest but she has not done so, so I finally had to chase and net her. I noticed she was yawning repeatedly this morning. I do not see any worms or foreign bodies in her mouth. Her...

Effie laid her very first egg three or four days ago. Alas it was a freaky shelless one with the yolk on the OUTSIDE. I now this is common in first-time layers so I kept a watch on her and was relieved when she laid her first normal, beautiful egg yesterday. However this morning I found...

I noticed my favorite hen, a RIR, acting every so slightly strange. She didn't fuss when I picked her up, she has been staying away from my new rooster who wants to mate all the time. When I looked at her vent and compared it to my other standard sized chickens she definitely has a little...

I have two 16ish week old Black Australorps who have recently been inducted into my Sicilian Buttercup's harem. The roo is 6 months old, I think he is going through this "teen years" because he is exceptionally motivated and mates with them several times a day. Does this change anything about...

I've been searching these threads as I am interested in learning more about showing chickens. Here's the thing. I LOVE my chickens as pets. They all have personalities and from what I have seen in videos online, the showing methods and husbandry of show birds is kind of...not super humane...

For a while I was washing my hen's legs and then brushing them with olive oil and garlic (I know, my friend's have already told me all the chicken eating jokes, but she's not for meat) and that seemed to really help with her mild case of scaley leg. I stopped doing that because it was...

My two newest flock additions, Wilson and Hen, are blue-laced red wyandotte bantams. I was skeptical about getting a rooster at first but Wilson is the greatest rooster ever. Not only are they both so adorable but he is quiet and so caring. He is very closely bonded to Hen. At first I thought...

This is a two-parter but I thought it would make more sense to put these two concepts together as they sometimes go hand-in-hand. I have been struggling with clinical anxiety/depression and was hoping to talk with fellow chicken lovers who struggle with the same. The chickens are really what...

Hecubah is a rescue chicken (technically was left behind by previous occupants of my house) so I have no idea how old she really is. When I found her she had a mild case of scaley leg mites which I have read TEND to infest older chickens. At first she did not seem to be laying eggs - I just...

I have read that it's bad to feed non-laying chickens food made for laying chickens. I have three chickies who will start laying any second now, so I have been feeding them the same crumble that my laying chickens eat. I have one rooster now who eats the same stuff. Is it bad for him or the...

I know leg bands are the in-thing but I personally feel like if I were a chicken I'd find it annoying to have a plastic or metal ring around my leg for my whole life. I recently read that chickens can always tell each other apart even in very large flocks of hundreds and they remember each...

I have one large Rhode Island Red (Hecubah), two 3.5 month old Black Australorps (Effie and Tallulah) and one wee little Aracauna Bantam (Boudicca). They are all relatively tame and all but Boudicca will eat from my hand. It makes it easier if I need to catch one of them, so I have been doing...

I'm not exactly sure where to put this post so I hope this is an okay place. I have two black australorp pullets hatched 1/31/2012. They are nearly fully grown (at least compared to my Rhode Island Red adult hen) but they have almost no combs at all. Literally there is just a teensy little...

I have been treating my 3 monthish old araucana bantam hen for bumblefoot for three days now - I have been soaking her feet and debriding the scabs but I can't seem to lance anything. I found one other post where someone shared a photo that looked like Boo's feet and no one was sure what it was...

My husband and I moved to the country about a month ago to a lovely little house on two acres. The previous occupants left behind, among numerous other, less charming things, a Rhode Island Red hen. I only spent one night in the new house before departing to spend a week house sitting. When I...