We have lots of little bugs crawling around on the nest boxes and other surfaces inside our coop. They look very similar to a photo of chicken lice that I found on this forum, copied below. However, they don't look quite exactly like that. I looked at them under magnification, and their...
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I need some advice as soon as possible.
We had two hens go broody at the same time. We've had problems throughout the incubation period, but I won't give you the whole long story. Suffice to say, we lost 3/4 of the brood. Anyway, the current situation is that one hen has just one...
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We live in Danby, NY (outside Ithaca). We've had about a dozen chickens, mostly Black Australorps, for a couple years. Everything has gone pretty smoothly for the most part, but questions do come up from time to time (like a problem I'm having right now, for instance!), so I thought I'd...