I was grooming one of my hens today. When I got to her vent I noticed she had a bunch of mites running around there. But every week since I got my flock (8 weeks ago) I've given them a dust bath mixed with wood ash, DE, and chinchilla dust (friend had a heap of it left after her chinchilla...
No peck marks. The whole flock (7 australopes and a black sex link) has been together since they hatched. No one new.
Just wondering (haven't looked up any of those treatments yet) are those expensive? I don't get paid for a while and my babies are the most important thing to me.