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  1. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    I definitely do plan to do another treatment this weekend. They’re still stomping on the roosts at night, so I know we’re not totally in the clear.
  2. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    I just wanted to take a moment and post about my results with the recommended products: the permethrin (which I found for livestock/farm application for sale at my local tractor supply) did the trick like I never could have imagined: so far I have applied it twice, one week apart, as suggested...
  3. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Thank you to everyone who has responded, I am so appreciative and have much more confidence having seen the same tips and products from so many!
  4. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Thank you so much, I’m hoping all of the advice here will help me get things a little better!
  5. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Correct, one method of direct to bird application as well as coop treatment. I never knew mites were so awful and difficult, I was so lucky the first several years to have no issues like this!
  6. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Okay, I REALLY like that there’s a dust I could use on them as well! And it’s something you’ve had experience with?
  7. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Okay, I’ll be calling around first thing tomorrow!
  8. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Maybe I could try the dust in their boxes and in conjunction with the heavier permethrin spray?
  9. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Where could I find this? Amazon or a farm supply store?
  10. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    I happen to have permethrin spray that I had bought for tick proofing clothing, but is there something more specific than just ‘permethrin’?
  11. sassfras

    Mites, mites, everywhere....

    Hey all, so I’ve been having a VERY difficult time ridding my coop/flock of mites. I have sprayed diatomaceous earth in the areas they most like to bathe, and I spray the areas where the mites seem to be hiding within the coop with a water/vegetable oil/soap mix. While this mix does seem to be...
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  12. sassfras

    Possible vent obstruction? Disease?

    I googled it and saw that, had totally forgotten that was why I originally bought it, but thank you for coming back to mention it, you’re so sweet! I go into panic mode over the chickens when they’re sick and I lose about half the knowledge I had to begin with.
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    Possible vent obstruction? Disease?

    Thank you so much! I was wondering about checking her vent but I didn’t want to go bothering her any more than I had (she also got picked on and I had to clean up her bloody comb. Rough day.) Hopefully tomorrow she’ll be up for it (at the very least no worse).
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    Possible vent obstruction? Disease?

    They eat a non-gmo layer pellet, and I dump oyster shell in it (like a lot) as well as putting extra out recently as I noticed some of the ladies shells were getting weak. The extra started around the same time I noticed the shell-less egg.
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    Possible vent obstruction? Disease?

    I have a nine month old cuckoo maran who is definitely having an issue with laying/pooping. Over the last week or so I have found a couple shell-less eggs (not just soft shelled, there was absolutely no shell). More recently I found a couple almost scrambled egg looking poops, but I couldn't...
  16. sassfras

    Bloody pin feathers

    Just on the combs, and while there is ventilation I will admit to a having an issue of moisture. This season was unseasonably rainy, and the newly constructed coop leaked but never had a chance to dry before the cold came in. So I have been trying to religiously clean their droppings, use a...
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    Bloody pin feathers

    I hope this reply reaches all of you, I have an 8x10 coop for 18 girls and more than five times that outside, so I feel she has ample space (and they have lots of distractions and places to go), I think since she’s a shy girl she wasn’t getting her fill of food and her new feathers were of poor...
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    Bloody pin feathers

    One of my Girls (an easter egger) is having a horrible time with her pin feathers. Every day I seem to see fresh blood coming from a new one, I don’t see any of the other girls picking on her any extra, so I’m concerned that she has poor quality feathers, or that she’s picking herself. I know...
  19. sassfras

    Mold/mildew everywhere!

    I don’t mind reapplying, and I just did some ‘googling’ and saw that whitewash can deter mold growth as well as being low VOC, so that’s pretty good! Now if we could get those dry days back, I’ll be golden... sort of.
  20. sassfras

    Mold/mildew everywhere!

    Shop vac, great idea! The white wash is low fume, but now I’m wondering if I should maybe do a more washable paint?
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