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I think there may be a mite problem in the coop. Altho i havent seen any on the girls , when is retrieved the eggs yesterday My arm was imediayly covered with little tiny bugs! I have to assume these are mites of some sort, although the DH insists that its summer and they are just bugs! The only...

well either live bait traps then or there is some organic sachels that they dont like the smell...Also the electronic pest controls

how hot is it? The sweet pea that is toxic is the flower plant not the peas we eat. Is it possiable that you had some kind of cleaner/disinfectant contaminated the scraps from the counter?

i would give it another day or so. i had an incubater break down on me and i wet a towel with hot water and put them in a cooler with a lamp. I did get them into a incubater within 12 hours and i dont know how long the incubater was cold before we found it. the tem was down to 70 and almost all...

a friend raised a pig for me..wasnt a cute guy...I named him sidepork.....mmm side pork.....lol well ya naming them makes it hard but even the ones i have that dont have real names still will be hard. Ya i went in the house and he did it. Although even tho im sure he did it anyways, i told him...

atleast it happened while i was still up so he wasnt in with the others all night. I had one go the other day but he was a late hatcher and was smaller and tho he probally wouldnt have made it the others trampled and layed on top of him.

me too. I so wanted him to make it . Sad for any of them . But he was so cute. im just worried that something may be wrong and the other chicks will get sic. now there is 10 left of this batch and 9 of the 5 weeks. I also have 7 older hens from last year and a roo. I havent fed medicated feed...

I had a chick that was 5 days old today start to look a bit droopy. He seemed not interested. He had been eating and drinking. I had not been able to get him to eat but he took maybe a couple of spoonfulls of water this afternoon bu me dipping his beak in the spoon. i noticed white yellowish...

im having the same problem! They all were running around eating drinking and now all he wants to do is sleep. I got him to drink by dipping his beak in water and I think hi vent is open but i noticed yellow whitish crusty beneath it. I wiped it off and he cried a bit but he really dont look...

im not sure on the types that people are using but i found a patio one at target while looking online. Im sure fleet menards and varous other places have them

thats what i was hoping. They leave her be in the nest except they still insist on sitting on top of her bacause no matter what i do they lay in the same box

i found something to this topic on another forum site. I googled. from the jist of it gaterade and yogurt. cool bath and something about asprin treatments. Im not so sure on how to put the link on or about posting a link to another page but you could google treating chickens for heatstroke...

One hen has gone broody and ive let her be with a few eggs. She did get down to eat the other day and all the other girls ran her out and tore at her head and chased her. Why do they do this? If she doesnt stop brooding am i going to have to seperate her?

i read on a few differnt feeds about misters. Im not sure myself on imstalling these . I put lots of ice in the waterers. It doesnt get that warm in northern mn all the time but we had some pretty warm days last summer. You could hang a fan and use frozen bottles of water to " air condition"...

night light? did they have a heat lamp in the house before going out? I just put ours out last night. I'm not sure if they are completely old enough but they are 5 weeks and are feathered. They were stunking up the garage to much and the DH said they had to go. Currently in the shop in a...