It's been a year and a half--hardly overnight. People here told me to use wire cutters and it did/does help, otherwise they probably wouldn't even have legs by this point.
Hello! I'm looking for advice on how to handle INCREDIBLY persistent scaly leg mites. Over the past year my flock has been dealing with this and I feel like I have tried everything other than dunking their legs in gasoline every day for 1.5 weeks. Some of their legs are almost deformed by the...
Update: the adoptive mother only lets the chick sleep under her. In the morning, she pushes the chick away and the chick’s original mama takes care of her all day, then back under adoptive mama to sleep. I have never seen anything like this 😂 but the chick is alive and well, so we’re all just...
Y’ALL an amazing thing happened tonight! I found the “bad mom” up in the coop tonight (normally the mamas nest on the ground in the coop and then I help them all up into the nesting/roosting area) and assumed she had left her last baby to die alone outside…but when I went to put the other mama...
Laid out when dead or how am I letting them out? I let them out to free range every day. I’ve been finding them just dead in the coop (when I let them out first thing in the morning) with no visible injuries.
I had no idea mites could kill chicks though! This mama does not have them (that I...
This is not either of their first times. The murder mama is a buff orp, and she goes broody a lot. She has probably raised 6 hatches and is normally a great mama. No marks on the babies, but they’re only dying with mama and not out in the yard. All of the chicks came from the same hatchery...
1.5 weeks ago I gave two broody hens four babies each. One hen has all of her babies and the other one has lost three. I keep finding them dead under her in the morning, and one I found dead near her at the end of the day. I don’t know if she’s killing them by accident or on purpose. My question...
Update: she’s still in the bathroom/chicken ER, but she’s looking so good!! I have noticed her comb is very pale and her face is rather dry and chapped. I assume it’s from being inside for so long. Any tips on hydrating topicals I can use?
I think so! I haven’t gotten the safeguard in the mail yet, but the doxycycline seems to be killing them. There was one more large dump after the initial photo and then a much smaller one yesterday.
The attack would have been sometime on Tuesday, but I’m not sure if that matters.
I just ordered some safeguard. A review says to put 5ml in 4 gallons of water for chickens. Would you recommend doing that once or more than once?