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My kids came in from the chickens today covered in these little redish brown fast crawling bugs. They were bigger than lice but I don't know what they are? Does anyone have experience with these parasites that I assume are mites and how do I get rid of them? From the number on my kids I am also...

Still no eggs, I fenced off an area under their coop that I thought they may be laying in but I combed it out first and didn't find anything. and so the plot thickens......... so its one thing to have no eggs but now I'm really baffled, I'm not sure what exactly is going on but one of the...

No eggs still, I kept them in all day yesterday until about 3pm today and nothing! I've searched in all possible places. I have a real egg in one of the nesting boxes.

Still no eggs....... and no place for a secret nest. I've kept them in until mid day and later for 3 days. My original suspicion was that I was not feeding them correctly so now I'm back to that again. I noticed today that of the D/P poultry crumble mix they were picking out the corn bits but...

No eggs, they were in until 3 today!

O.K. that sounds like great advise so I'm giving it a go, my poor girls did not know what hit them this morning but Mama has to get tough, no eggs, no outside. Still no egg at 2:30pm but I think you might be onto something. I will report back tomorrow:( Thanks

They are free range and in the coop at night.

I got 3 (30 week old) Golden comets about 4 weeks ago, they have layed 2 eggs in that time and none at all in the last two weeks. Initially I thought that they may not be laying because of the transition but they've used up that excuse. I have been feeding them D/P Poultry crumble mix and food...

Thank you all for your reassuring responses, however one thing that echoed through all of them was "wash your hands", why? When kids play with their dog, you don't generally make them wash their hands so what is it about chickens that make people say wash your hands after handling. What do...

Hi I just got 3 chickens and have been amazed by my childrens reaction to them. They want to hug and hold them all the time (thank God they have to go to school) I grew up on a farm and never considered chickens as pets and although I got them for my kids I was not expecting them to have so much...