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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    Wow!!!!! You made some progress and I would bet they are weather related too. Fingers crossed you can lick them soon!
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    Ok sounds good. I sprayed the coop afew times already but I will keep them out until this Friday then and spray intermittently in between. I have 3 bottles of permethrin cause ready for battle! Once we get the bedding in it will surely be hard to find them unless they are visible in the nest...
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    We sprayed our girls with permethrin and the coop. Moved them into an a frame tractor in the yard. Left the coop go afew days then yesterday my husband cleaned out everything. All the bedding, layers of the run floor down to dirt abc sprayed again. I went out today and see tons of dead white...
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    I am waiting for husband to get home cause I can't catch the girls alone.i tried to mist them but it is not getting near their skin. I am hoping that I can get them before they try to move. I swear it looked like a swarm. They were all over the food and water plus when I opened the nest box they...
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    It was worse than I thought in there!!! I found one of our girls dead. They were all over her and the water dish. I mixed up a spray bottle and when they got on me sprayed my hands! It did kill fast. So I still have to clean the bedding out of there. We have a tractor and I might put them in...
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    I am heading out soon. We live in farm country so going to try the local Mennonite supply place first. They should have something like it,
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    HEAVY RAIN = MITES...... TREATMENT ADVICE/COMMENTARY???

    I am here for more advice!! I have noticed them in years pastbyt never like this year! We too have a Jenny wren in a little bird house on the side of the coop. I think she is gone now. Mites on the eggs, mites all in the next boxes, the girl's are def annoyed and biting, scratching. I dumped...
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    Cantankerous neighbor

    Well, in this case, it is your responsibility to keep them out. We let ours out when we are home. They **** all over our deck and we have made a gate to keep them from going up there. We accommodate them because they are ours, but having your neighbor's chicken **** all over your back yard...
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    NEW NEIGHBOR WOES- venting

    I have had a single rooster for over 3 years. We are living in a rural, agricultural/zoned neighborhood with many 1+ acre lots intermingled with larger plots and farms. Our township turns their heads at the ordinance for poultry, which states you need min 3+ acres for 1000 lbs of livestock...
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    Swollen Chicken Face??

    Thanks! We brought the 2 with eye issues inside to a pen in our basement. Hear the rooster so he's still good. Worried about prissy. Hope your little hen improves!
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    Swollen Chicken Face??

    Im on here looking for help! We came home to a dead hen last night after being away over the weekend. My mother checked on them Sat and one of the 2 barred rocks were in the nest box when she was here. One of them is who was dead. I thought egg bound. Now we have a rooster and another hen...
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    Post Pics of your Leghorns

    That's great news! haha I will try to keep the faith! We already have to off 2 of our 3 year olds to accommodate the newcomers by fall! We have 7 hens, 1 roo now and the roo is nice because he was mother raised....we learned our lesson the first time. DO NO CODDLE YOUR ROO BABY! I battled...
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    Post Pics of your Leghorns

    So I just picked up 2 chicks last weekend, one is a brown leghorn, the other is a speckled Sussex. The local store ordered sexed chicks, but they got straight run freebies in the order so it's cloudy with a chance of rooster. We have had our share of them, and when we had a broody hatch the...
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    The Tetra Tint thread.. (Photos, info) ❤

    Anyone with March babies see any eggs yet??? I think I got my birds around March 10th. Waiting to see if we will get any this month. My birds are getting picked on by the rooster and I have not integrated them into the coop yet. Everytime I try to force them in there mayhem ensues....and not...
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    Is this normal?

    I got ROOSTER issues!!! My tetra tints (2) were hatched in march. They were raised with the meat birds who are now in the freezer. The flock and the littles free range in the yard all the time and have for months. The littles do their own thing and keep away from the big girls. I have seen...
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