Recent content by crystalkr

Hi everyone, A couple of days ago my husband saw this poor girl with these bugs(?) on her. The next morning she died. I have stripped the whole coop and treated for mites but I was wondering if this was in fact mites. I thought it was weird that they were so apparent on her during the...

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I have 5 chickens and the lowest in the flock is getting severely picked on. The head hen seems to pick on all of them and they all have varying levels of feather loss, but the lowest one is so scared she won't leave the coop. She also seems pretty thin and is missing feathers everywhere. The...