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Is there such a thing as catching mites from your chickens? Since I’ve gotten chickens, each summer I’ve been finding mites on me and I can’t find the source, the only thing I can think of is it coincided with the summer we got chickens. I don’t know what to do, no one else in the family has...

Rats have been eating from the chickens food dispenser and I have no idea if there is anything I can do to stop it. They don’t bother the chickens or the eggs and I haven’t seen any inside the coop. We have set traps and caught a few but in the countryside they just keep coming. We now have the...

I have a single chick that hatched the day before yesterday (it’s been adopted by a hen who seems like a natural mum). I’ve been keeping them apart from my two other hens but am leaving for a 4 or 5 day camping trip in a couple of days. I’m not sure what I should do to protect the chick, or if I...