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    Aggressive Flock

    Thank you for your wise words. I've lost another bantam today (pic below, if you've got the stomache), so it must be a coincidence when returning the previous one. I'm thinking that the pine martin must think the roosting area its larder, as both roosted there, rather than with the rest of the...
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    Aggressive Flock

    When one of our broodie bantams had an egg hatch (just the one), I moved her to in totally enclosed separate coop (as a couple of chicks had disappeared from the main coop - maybe a pine martin during the night). It seemed like a good idea, and the chick did well until yesterday it disappeared...
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    Chicks hatch, but then die

    I'm not sure. The first two died under the broody. The third had been moved under a heat plate as it was moving around, having revived in the warmth of the incubator for a few hours. The fourth in the incubator (set at 37.5). I saw most of the last one, and it was the gasping that seemed...
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    Chicks hatch, but then die

    No abnomalities (I've attached a pic of the last one, which was chirping happily inside and outside the egg), and the broody was/is fit and healthy (though she had gone off to eat and left the latter one to get cold).
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    Chicks hatch, but then die

    Hi. We've now had 4 chicks die with a few hours of hatching. Two were with a broody, so I'm no sure what may have happened; the third was abandoned by that broody and got cold and not moving but in an incubator it revived and seemed OK, then out of the blue we found it dead a couple of hours...
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    Clearing Red Poultry Mite

    Can't find any images of the label, or contents. You've found a useful source - if you can't eat the pigeons, not sure you could eat the hens' eggs. Humm. Any experience of KG Bird Spray - another natural one, so not sure it would work - but has great claims? Or a UK brand with permethrin?
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    Clearing Red Poultry Mite

    PS. Anyone have any knowledge of Johnsons Anti Mite Extra Spray, for the Permethrin?
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    Clearing Red Poultry Mite

    Thanks again for all your help. I've tried the Red Stop now for the initial ten days, but I still have the same few red mites hiding under the roosting bar (living on top of the diatomaceous earth 1). (I've crushed them every day). I thought it would be a neat solution, and have made sure no...
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    Clearing Red Poultry Mite

    Thank you all. It's obvious I need to take a new direction, and you've given a great start.
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    Clearing Red Poultry Mite

    We had an infestation of Red Poultry Mites last summer, which we reduced with rubbing diatomaceous earth on them and in there favourite spots - the hens stopped laying, and the mites went as the cold weather came in the UK. However with the arrival of spring they have started to return - and...
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    Poorly Hen

    Thank you all for your ideas. We had the vet give her antibiotics, and we tried nutridrops, cider vinegar, and the scrambled eggs, but she became slower, slipped into a coma, and after a day peacefully died. Our oldest and friendliest hen. We will have to try and search out another Columbine...
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    Poorly Hen

    Thank you. Much to consider (the rest of the flock are happy and healthy, so maybe it is reproductive even after this time of not laying).
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    Poorly Hen

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    Poorly Hen

    Thanks. I'll track down some diatamatious earth, and see if it perks her up. She is part of a flock (and top of the pecking order), and has permanent access to a balanced feed (with the odd bit of corn thrown in).
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    Poorly Hen

    A slightly sunny picture, with dropped wing and dropped tail:
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