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I used the stronger powder used for mites & lice. Hopefully it helps. I already had DE spread in their area, so I assumed it didn't work. I'm going to check tomorrow & spread more DE in other areas hopefully it works. Thanks!

Originally they were ignoring them! I couldn't believe it. Lol There was so many I was freaking out. Thank you!

Thank you I did flip everything around & found more! Chickens were ignoring them originally & that is why I made the post. I'm happy to day they are now eating then! Yay, thank you!

My neighbor mentioned her house being treated numerous times for cockroaches & I have used hone defense to keep them out of my house. It's been pretty successful until I found them in my dirt while working on a backyard project. I'm finding 100s of them under planters. They are basically under...

This was done right before covid hit and wood wasn't expensive. We spent $20 on the 4 walls. It's a 4x4 and the height was done that way to easily access the back through our slope. I've had people question the height. It was done because our slope would've been in the way of the back. We added...

Yes! My coop is made out of pallets. My husband built it in 3 days. In one day he basically built the coop and the rest of the details were done on other days. I basically sketched out what I wanted to look like & he made it happen. I did windows with hardware cloth wire plus that screen door...

Can you update what you did with your flock? I have culled 5 birds out of 25 and I am keeping the birds with no symptoms at the moment but I have the same questions as you

So you're saying after healing they still developed the same symptoms again?

Put out the ones with the swollen eyes? Will my others catch on? This is sad 😥 I gave them antibiotics hoping it would help but nope

Was it fowlpox? The wet one? My chickens got this & one of them died

This is what the polish look like now.

It's been a few weeks and the fowlpox finally cleared up on the chickens. It claimed one life and the teary, bubbly eyes, and sneezing is still clinging around. I feel like I should've culled this chicken from the beginning. Now my 1 month old polish chicks have swollen eyelids with teary eyes...

My chickens are 4 months old and 1 month old. The 4 month old chickens have fowlpox & have bubbly eyes. They were getting better but now the bubbles in the eyes is worse and now 3 of the chickens is showing the bubbly eye symptoms. My 1 month olds are not showing any signs of anything not even...