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Thank you for replying. The chickens do have access to dust bathe, they are free to run around the property and have several spots they dust bathe. As for the mites, from looking online they do seem to be the same that live on chickens. No one else in my family so far seems bothered by mites and...

Is there such a thing as catching mites from your chickens? Since I’ve gotten chickens, each summer I’ve been finding mites on me and I can’t find the source, the only thing I can think of is it coincided with the summer we got chickens. I don’t know what to do, no one else in the family has...

Rats have been eating from the chickens food dispenser and I have no idea if there is anything I can do to stop it. They don’t bother the chickens or the eggs and I haven’t seen any inside the coop. We have set traps and caught a few but in the countryside they just keep coming. We now have the...

I’m more worried about the older hens killing the chick. Should I just let mama hen try to protect the chick?

I have a single chick that hatched the day before yesterday (it’s been adopted by a hen who seems like a natural mum). I’ve been keeping them apart from my two other hens but am leaving for a 4 or 5 day camping trip in a couple of days. I’m not sure what I should do to protect the chick, or if I...