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    Hens infested with bird lice, looking for best approach

    We have been trying to "naturally" fight lice for a long time and have had no luck abolishing them. We have tried DE and organic virgin coconut oil mainly. I dont treat in the winter with ovco and this pic shows the worst off bird right now. I am considering sevin but given the fact that it is...
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    Terminix to kill wasps ok around chickens?

    I searched the site and could not find an answer for this. We just killed several wasp/yellow jacket nests with Terminix. We got it because it is "organic/natural." The ingredients are: Geraniol [106-24-1], White mineral oil, 2-propanol, vanillin, triethyl citrate, isopropyl myristate...
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    Treating Lice and bacterial respiratory infection together

    A week and a half ago I knew I had a few sick chickens but not that at least 4 of my 9 hens were, what I now believe to be, deathly ill. Nor did I know that they were all infested with lice. For about 2 days I looked up everything I could about the lice, because that was the first thing I...
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    Panting, salivating hen

    I went in to check on my birds a few minutes ago and let them out to wander a bit more before dark and one of them is panting and salivating. the worst part of keeping chickens is watching them suffer while I try to figure out what is wrong. Has anyone had these symptoms in a chicken before...
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    2 year old chicken, stopped laying 6 months and now wasting away. I'm clueless.

    Hello and thanks in advance for reading this! I have had this happen to one other bird before I got this one and never figured out what was wrong with her. There is a back story there that I can explain if it will help solve this problem. Whitey is a leghorn that has always been quite small...
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    Hello from Inland Nortwest

    I am a new member but have been pulling up the site now and then for information for a couple years. I am a full time student as well so I do not expect to be on here very much at all. I do appreciate all of the wisdom and knowledge I have seen on this site and am glad to be able to have access...
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