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    The chicken area is about 30' X 10' and open at the top. I believe that the mites came in with the doves and mynah birds that flew in to eat the chicken food. Since the epidemic, we have cordoned off a smaller area for the chicks with orange construction fence.Ironically the wild birds now don't...
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    hello

    OK Here's a gloomy update! The same morning that I got my first egg I noticed that the teenie tiny bugs that I had been seeing were now everywhere when I opened the hen house. I researched immediately and then realized that the bites that I was covered with were not "mosquitos-because it's been...
  3. lisakt

    hello

    Newby here! I ordered 6 chicks from our local feed store that are now 4 mo old. The only other time I had birds was 30 yrs ago and I remember stumbling upon a nest of 20 or so eggs when weed wacking on our 3 acres of wild orchids. Not pleasant! So I came to BYC because I've forgoten all aspects...
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