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We bought 3 " 1 year old" chickens in July - two Heritage RIR and one utility RIR/LH. Both of our HRIR have been laying very well over the summer and fall. However, our RIR/LH has given us maybe 3 low quality eggs (thin shells) and numerous shell-less eggs - or no eggs at all. She had a sinus...

We have 3 RIR's - over a year old, 2 are Heritage, one (Maple) is utility crossed with Leg Horn. All were treated with a spray for fleas last month in an effort to get our Maple to start laying. They have all been bug-free since and Maple has started to regrow feathers. I was hopeful. Now...

We have had 3 birds for a month now, 2 HRIR and one URIR. The 2 HRIR are laying well but after almost a month, miss Maple, our URIR hasn't given us a thing. I suspected that she may have fleas, so we did a liquid spray treatment (sevin isn't available to is) on all of them and I am not seeing...

Hello All! I really need some help in figuring out how to dilute this liquid permethrin I bought to rid my birds of fleas. I would love to use Sevin, but it's banned in Ontario and unless I have a farm I cannot buy it from the farm store. My other option is DE (which I am considering in their...

Well, after nearly 2 years of "thinking about getting chickens", we now have 3 lovely birds. I have been trying to absorb as much information as I can, looking up questions and finding answers! We started out with 4 - 1 year old birds. They came home to us on July 3rd in the evening. 2 utility...