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I have a couple silkie bantams with small hard bumps starting to show on the backs of their legs, I happened to feel one today and checked the others. 2 have them, one is the youngest one is the oldest. The youngest is about 4 months. Help anyone? Also one that has the small nubs has been...

Yeah well they are living under the outer shingles so they can't get to them. They free range all day so they may not be hungry either when they are in there at night

Okay so if I only apply it to the outside they can stay inside their coop?

My coop is infested with ants, I used diatomacious earth but it didn't completely work now there are huge flying ants instead of just sugar ants! My question is, during the day when they are out of their coop could I treat the perimeter with ant killer in the morning so it sits all day and put...

Oay secons try I put a bit too much food coloring and my cat is baby blue But I had to put a lot to make it actually turn him blue

I have a white silkie cockerel (i think) that i can not keep because i can only have hens right now. He is very sweet and friendly, gets along great with other chickens. NOT loud that I have heard, but I don't want to wait until he crows to find him a home. I live in Bow, NH, message me if...

according to this wikipedia page, bluing is just blue dye. So i guess that is why it worked. Good to know! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(fabric)

okay so I tried it, no blue chickens(well that aren't supposed to be) Tried it on my cat too, and I used a lot of it, and he is still pearly white and the yellow on his legs is gone too!

My chickens LOVE their baths, so they are not poor chickens they are happy chickens Unfortunately I did not have time to do my white cockerel today and I am selling him tomorrow so I won't be able to try it on white, but I will take a before pic of my blue splash and then an after picture to...

trust me it gets brighter before it gets lighter But yes it is safe.

and if it fails, he will be very festive for easter.

oh... well I will try it on my blue silkie I want to try it on my white one, just to see what happens, only a drop or two though in a sink of water along with regular shampoo. I will post pictures to see if it was a fail or a success. Either way, it rinses out. I tried to dye my cat purple once...

well that's the point a white bird gets dingy yellow, and blue and yellow are opposite colors on the color wheel, and apparently if you add a little blue to the yellow bird it makes them appear more white. I know people use bluing which is used for white clothes, so i wasn't sure if food...

Has anyone used blue food coloring as bluing when washing white and light colored chickens? Or does anyone know if it would work and is safe? Thanks!

yeah I have silkie bantams so my run is like fort knox i haven't put them out yet because they are still young so I have time to finish everything. I am going to plant flowers around the outside edge as well and put large stones along the inside edge.

yeah I know so predators can't get in the coop, but what if my run is completely sealed? could they still get in? the wire is burried, there is netting over the top that is attached to the top of the wire, under the run door is also burried poultry wire and on the inside is going to be a small...

So I built my chicken run, 4 ft of poultry wire burried 12" into the ground with bird netting over the top, and I have a chicken coop made from a large dog house that is solid with wood floor, one large door on the side to get in to clean and a smaller door in the front that will be leading into...