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Roll away nesting boxes Boxes with curtains So since I've posted I've had 3 chickens use a box! Wahoo! One young girl use one of the roll away boxes and one big girl and one little girl used the ones with the curtain. To answers some questions.... I have been keeping them locked in since...

Also my coop is a two room old farm house, I have nesting boxes in the front room and they are laying in a corner of the back room, should I try moving my nesting boxes back there?

I have 9 full grown, various ages and breeds and I also have 11 almost 20 week old chicks. About a month ago I was having a terrible time with an egg eater, well several I think, so I spent a whole day revamping the old nesting boxes (at this point my younger hens were not laying but my big hens...

DE is diatomaceous earth it's a powder used to treat lice and mites.

I was gonna take it back but I through out the bags! I bought another bag and it was ok. Hubby thinks we should just leave the can outside until it freezes here and that will kill them. That's still a few months away and I'm worried about the chickens getting on the can and carrying them back to...

Can I mix DE in with the food and kill the mites?

Oh help! I bought 100 lbs of layer pellets and dumped then into my feed can...a metal can with a lid. ( I now know it needs to seal) a few days later I went to get some feed and there are mites everywhere in the can! I spent hours cleaning, washing and dusting my coop and my chickens. My...

I have screens on all the windows and I have a walk thee door that stays closed except when I go in or out of it.mwe just have a little pop door cut in the bottom of that door. It's the only opening in the coop that isn't covered. The magpie flew out the walk threw door as I came into the coop.

I have a flock of 12 chickens ( 11 hens and 1 roo) mixed ages and breeds. They are free range durning the day. There is a little door cut out in the big door for them to go in and out as they please. A few weeks ago I went out to garther eggs and someone had pecked a hole in an egg. The problem...

So I've put down two more chickens that had the poopy butts, lethargic, and I notice they are really bloated. Does that help anyone help me identify what it is? Could it be worms? I've never wormed before. We let them free range on two plus acres. We live in Idaho so it's not warm and moist all...

There are one or two other chicken that have some lifted scales but not like hers.

Is this scaly legs, old age, or something else.

I lost two chickens last week and i have two more that don't look that great. The ones that died and the two I have in isolation all have/had poopy butts. The ones that dies got very lethargic and once they were dead or almost dead they had snot looking stuff coming out thier beaks. One of the...

Anyone know is Mentholatum will work instead of Vicks? Think they are the same thing or close.

I have a hen that is about 3 with a similar issue. when I first noticed it was hard. I penned her up and it softened but didn't empty. I have been try everything suggested for impacted that I can find. I was going to do the maggots but couldn't find any and read that they can actually eat the...