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Have you used this? I have an infestation and I am sick of it but don't want to get rid of my chickens

Thank you for this picture. I am buy some and then when I catch them I'm going to drop the whole thing into a bucket of water and drown the little pests!! I hate mice!!!

I got them for a broody. I originally ordered hatching eggs but they got lost in the mail and rather than make my broody wait even longer for the eggs I opted to give her chicks. these were straight run, so the luck of the draw I guess. But I don't believe that the ones that shipped the eggs...

I should have included this list with my first post. I thought I had but apparently I didn't. This is supposed to be a list of breeds that they could possibly be. No mixed breeds in this list. I guess the olive eggers could be the mixed breed. but I have never seen an olive egger that is Barred...

I don't know what breed these two dark ones are. I suspect they are Silver Pencil Rock Cockerels but I am not sure at all. I have never owned this breed before. They are 8 Weeks old. These are just as much of a mystery to me. Are they female Silver Penciled Rocks or are they Heritage...

I was hoping to find someone that had ordered from this hatchery. I live in Nevada and wanted a closer hatchery than the ones in the east coast.

Hi everyone. I just dusted my hens with Garden and Poultry Dust. Are the eggs safe to eat? I also used DE in the nesting boxes and the inner coop, as well as sprayed the inside of the coop with Poultry Protector. But my main issue is that eggs. Can you eat them?

This chick was born with Scissor beak. I noticed it when she was 2 days old. She is 4 weeks old here and is already unable to preen her feathers. I have never seen it this bad in such a young chick. And it just gets worse as they age. I already have one with Scissor beak and she does fine with a...

I know there is a debate about DE and people feel very strongly about it. It's hard to know what to do. I have not read of any other solutions that can be used. So if you have any suggestions please tell me. that is why I posted this thread. I have also read that Poultry dust works, IDK???

Thank you all so much for your help. I think I am going to treat the whole area as if there are extreme mites. I will pull all of the shavings out of the upper coop. and spray with Poultry protector. Clean all of the old shavings out of the Run and put a liberal amount of DE down before adding...

This is Honey. She is a Golden Comet and she is a very quiet hen. But she is the one that started all of this, I just can't figure it out. It started in her wing feathers and got progressively worse. She lays big beautiful brown eggs.

I feed them Barclay Non GMO Layer pellets. Lately they have been getting the Grower feed. I have also been giving them cooked egg yolks for protein and it does not seem to be helping. I will investigate after dark. The funny thing is that I moved the ones that were effected to another area with...

I just looked that up and is says that you need a Prescription to get it. Is there something that does not require a prescription? And why is it just concentrated on the backs of the hens? I do have one hen that is really bad. Should I cull her and do a deep cleaning? IS there something I can...

I do not have a rooster and I have checked for parasites and mites. So I am thinking that it is a learned behavior of feather picking in this group of hens. Saddens me.

Hello I have a beautiful Polish chick that has the worst case of Cross Beak that I have seen this early on in it's development. I would like honest opinions on what I should do. What is the best thing to do for the chick? Would keeping her alive be cruel?

Here are a few Pictures of the group that is effected.

Hello this may sound like a idiot question but I would like to know if chicken manure dust can cause feather problems for chickens that make it look like they're being picked on I have an area that's very hard to clean and I'm wondering if the environment could be causing them to lose feathers...

Lots of science talk. Makes my brain hurt. I don't know the genetic line of my Silkies. I have a black Roo. A buff hen and a white hen. So from what I have read here....that could produce anything? But black is dominant?

I will never buy shipped eggs again either. I bought 38 eggs. 8 of them hatched. And they were expensive. Each chicken ended up costing me nearly $20 dollars each. I have a Silkie roo and 4 hens. I am going to put their eggs in the incubator, I plan to go 14 days. I am getting an average of 3 a...