Recent content by BarrettRanch

Thank you for your responses and dosage suggestions! That was the next thing I was going to try. I'll keep you all posted!

I'm hoping someone can help us figure out what is going on with our flock. We began losing a bird every 3 days or so about a month and a half ago. These birds are approx. 4 months old. At first we thought it was the weeds all around our hen house as we had just started letting them free range...

Judy, By feather pickers, I assume you mean other chickens? I'm guessing you're right as it seems the smaller breeds are the ones who have the issue. We ordered a hatchery surprise so as you can imagine, we have a large variety of birds and sizes. I'm thinking that we should move the larger...

Good Morning! We have raised chickens for about 3 years and have never had an issue with any type of disease/parasites but we have a new batch of birds that have been in the chicken tractor for about 4 weeks and they are about 7 weeks old. A majority of them do not have the issue but we have a...