A little while ago I noticed a bald spot on my chickens neck and then another chicken had a bald spot a week later. Now almost every chicken has a bald spot only on the neck. Im not sure if it's mites because the baldness is just on the neck and they dust themselves daily.
A little while ago I noticed a bald spot on my chickens neck and then another chicken had a bald spot a week later. Now almost every chicken has a bald spot only on the neck. Im not sure if it's mites because the baldness is just on the neck and they dust themselves daily.
A couple days ago I noticed that one of my girls had a blueish waddle. I thought I would check in on her in a couple days. Now the whole side of her face is blueish and her eyelid is swollen. She seems to be a little lethargic but she is not in distress and her body does not seem to be shutting...
I have 2 birds that live at my barn coop and I modified the barn coop into a baby pig barn so the chickens need to go to the house coop. I have tried moving the birds to the house coop at night but the next day they wander back to the barn. When I tried shutting the barn coop off they roosted on...
When I changed my coops shavings on the floor out i noticed that the chickens had little bald spots on their necks. After a few days the spots got bigger and now they are spreading all over the chickens. I am suspecting mites I have Diatomaceous earth but I know that thats not all you have to do...
i am think of getting a rooster for the farm and i wanted to know if there were any breeds in particular that are extra nice. I tried getting frizzles and they would not breed my other chickens.