Hello...I have a flock infest with lice. Pet store sold me cypermethrin (40:60) 100 mg and told me to dilute it in water according to recommendations, and then spray the chickens/coup with it. My question is...how does spraying the chicken will help... their feeders are almost impermeable. The...
Hello. I have raised 12 chiken from egg. They are 3/4 month old. They all live together but I recently noticed that whenever I go do their housing and touch any of them or the structure itself my arms fill up with little (almost microscopic creatures with no colour or darker - black/brown )...
Hello. 3 month ago I received 1/2 month 8 red bald neck roosters. When they arrived I fed them crushed corn and they loved it. They eat it like monsters. Then they got bigger and I start feeding them with corn and some mixed chicken feed. Besides this, they had grass/ cabbages / and leftover...
I have 2 mama hens. One of them had her 4 babies 4 days ago, the other one had her babies today (not all of them, still waiting for more). It would facilitate immensely if the first hen adopted these new chicks. Today I tried to introduce a young chick to the first hen but she started picking on...
Hello. Today I found this (arrows of image file) inside this egg. The yolk looks normal, but those 2 strange bodies are so wtf. Can anyone tell me what it is, what is the cause etc? Thank you for your help
I recently built a new nest. I transferred the straw and eggs to the new nest. As soon as I did this, the rooster when into the new nest and manage to hide the eggs between the straw. I push the rooster out, rearranged the nest and eggs and he did it again. So I took the eggs out, let him do his...
Hello. I have several bantam chickens and some of them have that part of the head with some degree of colour. What does it mean? (photos attached ) I don't think it is a disease because I have had chickens for a long time and some of them have, some don't and they never get sick
Good afternoon. I am from Portugal and I have 2 bantam rooster and 6 bantam hens. I recently added the new rooster (young). Most of the time they get along nicely, but when one of them tries to mate, the other comes running and pricks the other. One prick and the fight is over. Sometimes the...