Hello,
I have 8 beautiful chickens, however there mites are getting worse and worse everyday. Feathers are being lost on their bums, under wings, there necks and chest. I have powder but does not seem to work when I put in on once a week.
Questions:
What products would you recommend?
How would...
I got two new hens in January, and they are 2 year old.
One of them has extremely bad mites and they both have their back claws pointing UP!
Here are some images.
How long will the feathers grow back for? (I have the powder)
Are there claws me to be like that?
Hello,
When I let my chickens out, I was getting ready to go out (their was no strange behaviour)
However an hour later I saw blood on the ramp.
I counted all chickens to make sure there were not any missing (no one was missing) and then I checked for any wounds, but there wern't any.
I am very...
This is what they look like now got any ideas?
There are 4 of these that I got
The colours they are...
Black
Green
White
Feet:
Small feathers
2 has small black feathers
1 has black and white feathers
1 has no feathers on her feet at all
hello,
I bought new chicks, but they are near to the ned of the pecking order
However my older ones are pulling my chicks feathers out when they need to go inside (I seen them)
What shall I do?
1) we think they are about 4 or 5 months
2) there is a cage inside open, the chicks sleep in cage (they choose to but can come out whenever) and the older ones sleep on top
3) like I said I got 1 light sussex and 3 bantams. My new ones are cross they are about same size as my cockerel
Hello,
I have had 4 hens and gone to get another 4.
I have not introduced my birds in a long time.
I have got 4 hens who is really good at flying, but I am worried if they fly away when they are in the garden, however... They are terribly scared of my other hens (they run away from them)...
We put our's down as she struggled in there half.
We gave her a few weeks and if she didn't find another way to walk she had to be put down.
One of the other hens had the same problem, she was getting around but most of the time she needed to sit down, so we decided to put her down as we saw...
Hello, ive just got some more chickens these look around a few months old.
Me and my mum reckon that they are a mix
The chicks has black, white and dark green feathers and we reckon they are all hens,
some are like a pekin size and some are like a legbar size. With feathers growing on the...
They eat pallets, grit and grass
They used to eat corn and sometimes scraps.
They dont anymore as we got rats from scraps and corn well Ive askes my mum but she haant got any
She died now and the chicks were haching in the storm and after that chicks we found out after that she has got a disease
However for next time:
Yes food, water was available to her all the time in the cage.
The were 2 only vertual but like I said we think that it is because they were hatcing...
Thanks
We got rid of them for sure
We got the spade, when my dad was close to the rat it ran out.
They have not returned ever since.
Thanks for the solutions when I have troubles with them again I will use those methods
Hello
We have been dropping water on the beak and but the beak in the bowl but it didn't help.
We don't know what is wrong. As they are from the same batch it could possibly be an disease that they got or possibly the rats that we had (we scared them off)
They do get other things when they...