Hello. I have been dealing with mites for years. They can be seen crawling on the perch and really bother the chickens at night, so I think they are roost mites. I’ve used permethrin, sulfur, lime, Elector, Ivermectin, added a sand box for dust bathing into the coop, and last summer took out...
How important does everyone think it is to feed chicks the chick starter food until they are 18 weeks old like the directions on the bag say to do? I’ve opened up the chick section of the coop to the main section and now that they have access, I just don’t know how interested they will be to...