I saw a mite on one of the chicks, then looked and found them on the hens, who are still sitting on about 5 eggs apiece.
Can you use DE on chicks? Does it work to get rid of mites, or just to prevent? I'm assuming we can't use anything stronger on the chicks, who are so far 1-2 days old.
I'm eleven and home schooled and we've got eight bantams. We recently adopted two roosters so we could have some of our hens mate with them. We finally saw the easter egger rooster mounting our easter egger hen. After we had went away for the weekend we came back and there were four blue eggs of...