mites?

  1. P

    Color change in feathers?

    I have a 7 week old olive egger, she's a lovely lavender grey color but she has come up with red blotches on her wing-feathers and the back of her head. The feathers look completely healthy, the red doesn't wash off, she's acting normal, and the skin is not irritated. I'm fairly sure it isn't...
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    Do mites hibernate?

    I saw little red bugs in my chicken roost tonight. I hadn’t seen them all winter and tonight when I checked on my birds, there they were. Do these things hibernate? What kind of mite could it be? I’ve seen spiders in there coop also, BIG spiders, what to do? Please help.
  3. Chickengeek2020

    Mites??

    I rescued 2 pair of bantams, the neighbors of a friend of mine were just going to kill them if no one took them, so I got them. After getting them home I noticed their legs where pretty messed up. I've soaked them in Epson salt water, and then sprayed them with some poultry mite spray I had on...
  4. KWVT

    Mites or Lice?

    Mites? Lice? Any idea what it is? I have two coops. I thought my laying hens might have mites due to some suddenly missing feathers at the base of the tail (no rooster). However, looking them over I couldn’t directly see any issues other than the missing feathers. I figured I would check the...
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