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Oops, forgot to respond to the worming question. I honestly have no idea if the worming 'helped', although I'm sure it didn't hurt. I wormed in April/May, and it was their first worming ever. It definitely did NOT make the green poop go away, and three of them still died AFTER worming. For...

Two of the girl's that died were RIR. Another one was a BR, but she was always the runt and somewhat emaciated all along. She is also the one that did not have any sign of ascites. They always have plenty of water, so I don't dehydration is an issue. And their poops were not always liquidy...

Can someone please guess on what might be occuring with my girls? They turned two in March, and I have lost three since then. Basically, egg production was great until the middle of last summer. Then, I started getting alot of soft-shelled eggs and general poor production. I was feeding...

See, that was what I was afraid of.......... Margaret is the best layer, and she really is one of my sweethearts. Especially now that I have been physically picking her up every morning and night to carry her back and forth from the shed for so long. I just love to cuddle her. I hate that...

Hello All, About a month or so ago, I had to pull Margartet from the flock because she was absolutely trying to peck right into the head of Aunt Francie. I had another hen, Lily, die back in May, and this is when it started. For awhile, I had taken Aunt Francie and brought her into the house...

Well, I figured out that their were TWO main instigators, Margaret AND Batgirl. So, just after my last post in June, I pulled them away from the flock and put Aunt Francie back in. Margaret and Batgirl have been in a tiny makeshift cage in the yard, and I have put them in a dogcrate in a shed...

I have begun treatment for a possible mite infestation. Last week, I cleaned out the coop and dusted everything and my girls with Sevin 5% dust. I was a bit concerned with the toxicity, as it is clearly toxic to honey bees. I will be doing follow-up in the next couple of days, so I have been...

You should see the piece of paper with math equations scrawled all over it from this morning. I ended up just guessing, but I got the measurement pretty close. I have no idea how Chris09 derived the answer, but I sure am happy that I could get the info on here!!

Mine have layed soft-shelled for quite a while, despite supplemental oyster shell and offering many of the foods that Imp mentioned. I just read that a vitamin D3 deficiency can cause soft-shelled eggs. I bought a vitamin/electrolyte supplement for my girls yesterday, which has vitamin D in...

Thankyou so much!!!!

After trying almost everything to get my chickens in better health, I finally found a feed store that carries a vitamin/electrolyte supplement. It is the Durvet brand, and it states it is a water soluble premix of vitamins and electrolytes for poultry, swine, ruminants and horses. It somes in...

Today will be the only day this week that I can address the mites issue. I still wasn't able to find any kind of permethrin type coop or kennel spray. Would a bleach solution sprayed on do the trick? I still have a bit of the Adams Flea and Tick spray left over for when I treated for lice...

Do you happen to know what the name of the permethrin based spray for poultry houses might be? Or, where I can get some? It seems there are so many things on this forum that other users mention, but all my local feedstores don;t seem to carry or know about.

Oops, I forgot to mention. Since I'm not sure if they all got a good dose of the Albendazole, would it be okay to worm them again while I treat for mites? I had thought that maybe if I used the Eprinex pour-on, that would address any remaining worm issue as well as the mites. But, I don't...

I know this info is on here in many posts, and I'm just trying to clear everything up. I have been dealing with health issues for a very long time, and I have been trying to take the necessary steps. I lost one chicken to some type of ascites a month ago, and now I have another inside because...

We've got heavy rain for the next two days. This delays addressing the mite issue I guess, but I need to read up on what the best way to treat them and their environment. Aunt Francie is in a dog crate in the bathroom, but at least she is safe. I visit her every so often, and since that is...

Last week I had seperated Aunt Francie by putting her in the dog crate inside the coop. Then I thought that wasn't fair, because she wasn't the one who should be in isolation. I let her out, and Margaret kept going after her. So, the next day I put Margaret in the crate. The next day I put...

I lost one of my hens Lily a few weeks ago, and since then Aunt Francie has been bullied off and on by the other girls. I am not sure of the dynamics of flock relations, but this just started when Lily died. I guess the pecking order was disturbed in some way and Aunt Francie is taking the...

So I just went out to let Aunt Francie out of the crate so she could go to bed. RIGHT when she walked out of the crate, Margaret went right after the top of Aunt Francie's head! Bad girl!!!! So I pushed her away, and held Aunt Francie on my lap for a minute to soothe her. As I put her down...

Along with the worming and the delousing, I have been giving them ACV, yogurt, buttermilk, oats, and I have switched to Flock Raiser for the higher protein. I have eliminated most table scraps, and they only get scratch about once a week now. I think I'll go ahead and put her in the crate to...