Hello...I have a flock infest with lice. Pet store sold me cypermethrin (40:60) 100 mg and told me to dilute it in water according to recommendations, and then spray the chickens/coup with it. My question is...how does spraying the chicken will help... their feeders are almost impermeable. The...
Hello. I have raised 12 chiken from egg. They are 3/4 month old. They all live together but I recently noticed that whenever I go do their housing and touch any of them or the structure itself my arms fill up with little (almost microscopic creatures with no colour or darker - black/brown )...
They are not filling on treats.... I visit them every 3 days (i don't leave near) and they eat the leftovers I collected during those 3 days at home. When I arrived every corn I left there 3 days ago is still there
Hello. 3 month ago I received 1/2 month 8 red bald neck roosters. When they arrived I fed them crushed corn and they loved it. They eat it like monsters. Then they got bigger and I start feeding them with corn and some mixed chicken feed. Besides this, they had grass/ cabbages / and leftover...
I have read about introduncing them at night and it makes total sense. One the order hand I fee that the hen kills the chicks once she realize they are not hers
I have 2 mama hens. One of them had her 4 babies 4 days ago, the other one had her babies today (not all of them, still waiting for more). It would facilitate immensely if the first hen adopted these new chicks. Today I tried to introduce a young chick to the first hen but she started picking on...
I don't know the age or race because I have many mixed up. But they are mostly road island red. One of them is very lethargic for several months rarely leaving the coop. Could the egg be from her
I too thought of that immediately. However, the embryo is in the yolk and the yolk seems normal to me. So I don't think it could be a partially developed embryo. but I can be wrong. WE NEED EXPERTS ;)