It’s definitely mites, little tiny things that craw all over your arms when you carry the infested ones.
I’ve been using warm water for swollen eyes and I put neosporin around the bumps.
the two new hens I observed with the same is pictured.
Ive been researching and it might be fowl pox?
I need some help! Some of my chickens have gone broody and mites been biting their faces and cleaned the coop and separated the ones that has the swollen faces and just now I found two more of my hens with bites and swollen faces. The first two I’ve been cleaning their faces but one of them...
Breeder said she there’s blue, chocolate and lilac Anconas. She has blue in her ducks. But she is most definitely interested how this little guy/gal turns out.
I just hatched some Ancona ducklings and I have one that’s “rare” all yellow, not like it’s brothers and sisters.
The rare duckling’s feet is also all yellow with no black markings.
I had messaged the breeder and she said that she had never seen that before. She only has Ancona dusks on her...
The new 3 hens are not together with the existing flock during the day and they do have there own food. My main flock is outside of the chicken run and the door is closed. The 3 hens are fairly young about 5 months old now
I put my new three hens with my existing flock and I have the 3 separated during the day away from the main flock. At night is when they get back together.
My concern is that it my 3 hens aren’t eating as much, their feed sack isn’t as full and feels quite empty.
Are they over stressed? I’m...
she started laying regularly With my other hens but she’s the only one that stopped? Pretty weird? But I’ve been reading Marans do tend to take a break from egg laying in the winter