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None of their food is left out in the open, and none of the storage bins are leaking. I already found the issue though, I posted earlier this week that I found lice on my birds and eggs on the chicks. I treated everybody on Sunday. I lost another chick today, but I believe it was because this...

Upon reading ways that people got duct tape off their own skin, there's several different possible methods. Some said rub oil(Vegetable or any kind of food oil) on it, or ice, etc. Basically, if it's safe to use on yourself, it worth a shot trying. If you use ice, don't soak her foot in it, her...

You'll have to soak her foot in a solution to loosen up the adhesive, but I have no idea what kind of solution. Then you'll have to very, very slowly remove the tape. You'll probably have to create your own post about this, you'll get better answers that way. But when you do get it off, DON'T...

Probably that I usually have my girls raise the chicks. With the hens, the chicks are dust bathing as soon as they lose their baby chick feathers. When I raise them, it can take them until they're mature to start dust bathing. But then again, the Gamebirds I raise tend to know to dust bathe...

Thank you I see. I believe I've been kinda of going with the APA's standards anyways, because I like to check over a list of breed standards before I purchase any new birds. How can I join the APA? I'm not an NPIP member, I wouldn't be able to get a reduced necropsy price anyways? My...

I really don't have that many, which is why it's so frustrating. I now have 30 chickens, but only 19 of those are older chickens that I'm keeping/have kept. Even when I had just 10 I kept having issues. For a long time, I was doing this by myself. Early this year I found another Silkie...

I found out on Friday that I have a lice problem. I do regularly check my chickens, but I never suspected an external parasite because they have a clean environment, have access to dust bathing 24/7, and in my four years of owning chickens, I've never had a problem with parasites. But, I realize...

I didn't lose any chicks that I raised during the rains. The chicks I lost were chicks that were on the ground 24/7, with their mom. They have a sheltered area, but other than that, mom is left to protecting them from the elements. The breeds I breed have all done well with mom before. They...

The coop that my broody hens are in is established into the ground. The only way I could 'raise' it is if I were to make a wooden or wire floor and somehow attach it to the coop's floor, since their 'floor' now is just sand on top of dirt. My other coops are raised, but the stupid pests are...

Again, money. Besides this past month, my chicks have never died for no apparent reason, it's always been because of predators or something else identifiable. Which is why I'm frustrated with breeding, I usually know the problem, yet I'm helpless to fix it. All the chicks who died this past...

I originally got them for the same reason, but it became too tempting to not breed them. I actually haven't had any fatalities between my adult chickens, my chickens all get along pretty well, but they can still sometimes be pretty brutal to each other. I didn't raise them for business, I'm...

I first started my attempts at trying to start breeding chickens in March of 2013, when I bought a batch of silkie chicks. All but one chick died from that batch. At the time, Silkies seemed to be very hard to find, so I was eventually able to get another batch. They all died at about 9 weeks...