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    How long can feather lice live in bedding, wooden surfaces, etc.?

    I've read a few days to about a week for lice. If you have a way to treat the environment with something like permethrin, that's the maximally safe way to ensure nothing crawls back onto the bird (that's what I did the one time I encountered bird lice, so I didn't directly test their...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    Yes. I have done much investigation prior to this thread. That's why I'm interested in prevention/control of the plants, not diagnosis. The third, most recent situation was rather conclusive. A mangled Ranunculus sp plant was the only vegetation available to the bird capable of causing the...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    I think the common idea that chickens won’t eat toxic things is because issues like what I’ve run into are still pretty rare, and when they do happen it’s really hard to know what happened if a bird just falls off the roost one night in a flock that mostly keeps to itself (vs deliberately...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    I'm pretty confident it's the buttercups; the past incidents were after foraging in a small area that I discovered was littered with them mixed in with the grass and this incident featured one that had definitely been nibbled through the HWC. I went on a plant identifying spree after the first...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    I have just dealt with my third iteration of poisoning from buttercups (Ranunculus) in two years, also the most serious so far since I had an almost fully paralyzed, barely breathing hen in my arms for over an hour through the worst of it. I haven't been letting my birds free range lately due to...
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    Corid and VetRx??

    VetRX will not do anything for coccidiosis. I have used it quite a lot for helping chickens with facial and respiratory inflammation due to stuff being up the nose that shouldn’t be. It’s very, very good for helping chickens expel stuff that’s gotten pushed up past the nares and for stopping...
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    Growing my little flock

    This latest batch of chicks is giving my phone some identification problems 🤣 This little duck bean baby is the most precious little thing and is now named Butter Bean.
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    White livestock safe paint turned pink

    Well I'm back to not being content with what those middle panels are doing. I got a rare 48h dry window so I painted over the pink. That was a while ago at this point. There's been no significant rain; just dew a couple of mornings and light sprinkles here and there. It stayed white for three...
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    Lice or Mite Infestation

    Additional pictures of the other affected bird would help a lot. For lice, you should be able to see bugs running on the skin or egg masses at the base of the feathers, usually near the vent. Mites will look like tiny gray, red, or black dots on the skin under the feathers, sometimes on the...
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    Lice or Mite Infestation

    Those look to me like new feathers coming in, some of which may have been damaged a bit. Oddly timed molt perhaps? I don't offhand see anything that looks indicative of lice or mites, just new feather growth. How old is the bird in the picture?
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    Mites - what do I have and what are the most effective treatment combinations?

    Ah sorry I just realized this thread is already almost a month old! I misread the date and thought it was the 23rd. I guess it's probably too late then for the vacation timing and all. I hope your birds have fared ok!!
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    Mites - what do I have and what are the most effective treatment combinations?

    If you found mites crawling on spent feathers, it's one of the following: Northern fowl mite Tropical fowl mite (these can come in from contaminated wood even if they're not native to your area - happened to me once!) Red roost mites retreat back into crevices in the wood; they don't stay on...
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    'Supposed' to be a pullet...?

    That is a suspiciosly red comb for that age.
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    Growing my little flock

    The universe does not want to let me have an easy time of it this year... Raven got tapeworms. Luckily I think I actually caught it within the first day of her showing those horrible little wiggly worm tabs in her poo but still...of all the darned things!!! I don't even let my flock forage out...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    Of all updates to be posting on this thread so soon...ugh. Raven has tapeworms! Sadly I'm hesitant to hope that treating that will fix the feather/molt situation for her and Hobbit. I've scrutinized many a poo from this flock, both dropped in front of me and from the poop boards, and I've...
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