I have dirt in my coop floor and every rain it gets wet the worming worked but I still have chickens with diarrhea and when I collect eggs I get itchy little bites that itch forever Kim guessing mites I can't see anything any help on this.
I used Fenbendazole it worked. But all of them still have dirty bottoms with traces of diarrhea after treatment and the vet said no worms now so what to do about the diarrhea?
I have 7 hens they range from 1 1/2 years to 4 years they all have bad diarrhea and vet said get they have round and hook worms to get multi wormer with ivermectin the feed store said no and gave me safe-guard medicated dewormer (fenbendazole 0.5% and said divide it into 3 sections and give all...
Well seems one of my girls that was the biggest and healthiest looks like the other bird or birds might have injured her eye and pecked her crop I took her out and she was not eating just would walk slow and sit we cleaned her up kept her inside our home day 1 her eye is open again now and she...
I agree it's hard to tell from a picture but it doesn't appear she is sick poop looks right and eyes and feet feathers all look ok from what we can see.
I washed my hens butt when they got messy with warm water and they dried in the sun, if it's cold it wouldn't hurt to dry them with a rag towel or blow dry.
My coop is ok and has two sides one for the rooster and the his sister's and one side for momma and the mature hens. I let them out every day to run the back yard and in the evening they put themselves to bed and I lock up till morning. I have six mature hens and the rooster has six sister's.
I have a rooster he is about 3 1/2 months old he just started trying to jump on the hens older and his sister's and his momma. This is the second day now I noticed and one of the older hens that was chasing him away from food the other day is now running like heck from him he is chasing her all...
I give my laying hens laying crumble and leftover food sometimes. Such as mashed potatoes pork chops bread etc recently one of my hens stopped eating and lost weight her coop mate is fine so I started making scrambled eggs and she would eat it but was still not doing much better other then...
:cd Im curious after it rains on my chickens roaming the yard,they fluff up and run their beak down their feathers and each other's. I'm thinking they are trying to dry themselves off,or is there another reason why they ruffle and pick through their feathers? I'm always trying to understand my...
I have a 5 chickens in a good size coop one side has the RIR and Americana they get along great but the Americana has lost most feathers from her bottom and som on her neck,I seen the RIR plucking her bottom and have seen her pulling her own from her bottom, I feed them a great crumble and I...
I have buff chicks also they are about 4 weeks I use news paper for bedding and change it 2 times a day one of them is doing the same thing opening its mouth every few minutes but seems to be OK other then that. I am trying to let them out in one side of the coop to get used to the other older...
Hi I'm a new member my girlfriend and I have two chickens one is a Rhode Island red and the other is a Ameraucana, they are the best. we are new to this and have been learning as we go, so far so good as there is so much more to learn and this group is the perfect place for us, and to get to...