Recent content by MCArt20

Thank-you! Any other thoughts on whether mites vacate during molting or any ideas or combination of things that have worked for people - welcome!!!

Thank- you for the info- I don't have a written record of exact products I have tried, but my chickens definitely have/had northern foul mites- which my understanding is typically live on the bird, not the coop.Vet friend id'd them.......and I know they come from crows and sparrows, which we...

As I mentioned, I have tried everything, and nothing has worked. The last thing I did @a month ago was the shampoo w/ cedar oil and eucalyptus, and 7 spray. Before that, regular applications of ivermectin- (pour on) applied 3 days after initial application and then monthly, stopped @September-...

I have had an awe full time trying to get rid of mites- for like a year and a half. I have tried everything, and nothing has worked. I separate their feathers down their back, and can always see some tiny black dots. I hadn't checked them for a month or so, work got crazy, etc., and so today, i...

Thank- you, that’s good info. I thought it was blood too at first but it’s always the same oval shapes with dark blotchy spots, almost like an insect .....but I just don’t know

Last few eggs have these types of things in the yolks- anyone know what they are? Thanks Mary

My bared rock has always seemed to have a poopy butt, way more so than the other chickens, but my chickens do co- exist with our dogs when they free range our entire yard, once a day right now as there are more shady spots that way in the heat of the day. The dogs (one especially) has been known...

I have raised the feeders, rodents get into them anyway, and I do take them in at night, but rodents are out during the day too. Other birds like crows and sparrows that carry mites access it too....thought maybe this would help all issues....but wondering if they really work as they look....

does anyone gave experience with these type of feeders? Hoping to keep out other birds and rodents.... Thanks!

Well I treated mine in the late summer/ fall, they did shed the old, but they weren't molting at the time, but I know many birds do molt at that time. (Of course mine waited for winter to molt- go figure, super cold) Perhaps washing the legs- I actually scrubbed them with an old toothbrush and...

Really- I didn't realize they kinda change color some. Amazing things these chickens!

So part of my fenced yard is the chicken run, and I do like a garden, so I've been researching plants and trying different things. It's so hideous looking in the winter, all the mud and muck and it rains so much....so I am on a mission to try to have a garden- and chickens. So the grape plants I...

Amy's first egg! Today!! It's very light cream, almost white. Well, tinge of pink I guess...

I have a probably a silly question- is there any correlation to the color the Easter egger chicken is, to the color egg they lay? Or is it random. I.e., do the golden ones tend to lay one color while the blueish grey ones lay another? New chicken keeper here- can you tell!

So pretty- of course I'm a little biased!