RojoMarz
Crowing
I have a plastic doghouse, with wood ash inside, that is supposed to be used for dust baths. They lounge in it but also dig holes in the dirt. One of the girls thinks it's a nest box, as someone is laying eggs in there.
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You can use poultry dust on them for them mites, if you want. Chickens will have some sort of mite no matter what to some degree.Hey Nuthatched! yeah in the recent weeks they have sorta started growing their tails at different rates. I definitely noticed that black chick has curved tail feathers, i’m not looking to have roosters but if it happens, so be it i guess! he/she could help take care of the small flock. I just wanted to give it benefit of the doubt and wait and see if more tail feathers would grow in... behavior wise it hasn’t been too different.
They did have an issue with some white dots clusters at the base of neck feathers in June July so i was really trying to spray them down with appropriate stuff and encourage them to use dust bath too. After 3 rounds of the spray the white dots have lessened soo much. I don’t know if it was mites or lice. i think i did see a tiny translucent white insect scurry among the feathers of a black one, but it’s really hard to tell since chickens don’t really stay still for you to look carefully.
"Golden Comets" Are just red sex linksI don't know what a golden comet is supposed to look like, so can't help with them.
I worried about some white dots on the feathers of my australorps. Then I realized they were the bits of feather shafts from replacing their feathers. It may not be your issue, though. I didn't see any transluscent insects. Some the bits did seem to jump around, though, maybe because they were so light weight.They did have an issue with some white dots clusters at the base of neck feathers in June July so i was really trying to spray them down with appropriate stuff and encourage them to use dust bath too. After 3 rounds of the spray the white dots have lessened soo much. I don’t know if it was mites or lice. i think i did see a tiny translucent white insect scurry among the feathers of a black one, but it’s really hard to tell since chickens don’t really stay still for you to look carefully.