My neighbors gave me a big bucket of ash and we dusted by hand the infected chickens. We'll see how it goes as this seems to be the stuff that has worked over here. While dusting the 4 little chicks we noticed there was next to no bugs present anymore.
Amazon is something we just can dream of :barnie
We do indeed have online markets where to search this kind of stuff, but delivery took a huge toll with the pandemic, so when the products I order show up (a week later) it will definitely be too late for these little ones
Well in fact, this...
It may be a little tricky here in the country I live, the closest thing I could find some of that might be a pet store or a veterinarian. I will ask my neighbors first as some of them have raised chickens for longer than I have lived here.
This monday I found 8 new little chicks roaming through the grass, and most of them looked healthy enough. Even if one of them looked a little weak, the next day all of them were really lively. Today we're down to 4, and when I went to remove the little bodies I noticed they were crawling with...
Thank you. He seemed to have stabilized in the afternoon, but tomorrow I'll check him again. I doubt it's the coop really, since it doesn't have any weird smell in particular and it was built about 2 months ago. We also regularly spread grass collected from the lawnmower, so they won't have to...
Generally speaking, my chickens live a pretty healthy life and are free to roam around every weekend, but today I faced this very unusual situation. The eldest of my roosters (which may be 3 or 4 years old) is having trouble breathing, it sounds whistle-y and watery, as if the had some kind of...