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Hi all, Can everyone please post their best tips for keeping chickens and coops cool in the summer heat? My poor silkies seem to struggle with anything over 30 degrees, no matter how much water, shade etc..I provide. I’m thinking of installing a small fan in the coop (wooden cubby house style)

Thank you so much for your reply 😊.

Update: after three weeks and hundreds of dollars worth of product, I finally got rid of the mites. I have put my four silkies back in their coop. 🤗🤗 But here’s the thing. They are still reluctant to go in at night and even when they do go in, they sleep on the floor and avoid the nesting...

I’ve actually gotten rid of the mites thank goodness. It took three weeks, Coopex, Poultry Shield, Pestene powder, bottles of Avitrol and more elbow grease than I thought possible. But I’ve now built the chooks a dust bath in the hope of good maintenance. I ordered sand and dirt (which they...

I want to use some of this in my chicken dust bath to deter mites. Does anyone know where I can buy it in Melbourne please? Interstate postage is pretty hefty. Bunnings don’t stock it unfortunately.

My coop is a hideously expensive timber kids cubby house (with porch, letterbox and proper windows: they saw us coming a mile off 🤑) that was used for all of 2 years or so and then abandoned. So I converted it to a coop. I installed an automatic chicken guard door, had perches and boxes built...

I bought some grit but I haven’t given it to them yet. I’m not sure what to do with it. Do I mix it in with the crumble? Or just put it in a bowl by itself? Re dirt baths, there is a patch of soil in my yard that they love to burrow into and ‘bathe’. I was horrified when they first did it! 😂...

I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you, for taking the time to help me. I had a careful look at her (Salt) in the daylight (under wings and around vent) and saw no mites. I saw lots of feather spikes 👀. Yes, it is Spring here so I don’t think it’s molting. The other three girls seem fine...

Thank you so much for answering. I am so grateful. I’ve never had chickens before and I feel like I’m out of my depth in a huge way. One of the chickens appears to have lost a few feathers- she’s the only white bird and there are several white feathers in the makeshift coop. I can see...

Hi guys, So I’ve treated the coop with Coopex and treated my silkies with Avian spray and diatomaceous earth. I think the coop will be ready for them to go back in a few days when I am certain there are no more mites. But I have two questions. The silkies have not laid any eggs at all for...

I’m assuming I should keep the chickens in the ‘alternative coop’ (day run with creative use of tarpaulins and plastic vet travel box) until I am sure both chickens AND coop are clear?

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Thank you so much everyone for your responses. I have moved past the totally freaked stage and am now engaged in full scale mite warfare. I have moved the chooks into a different coop, burned all the wood chip in the old coop, sprayed every surface with Ativan mite liquidator and treated the...

I left a piece of white cloth in the coop overnight and here it is this morning..

I could see them crawling on the wood and wood shavings. They looked like microscopic gray dots. So my best guess was red mites.

Thank you so much for answering. Tomorrow I will empty out their house of all woodchip etc... and spray/ disinfect. I will also put Vaseline on their legs. I’m going to try to get some ‘Poultry Shield’ but I am struggling to find any for sale in Melbourne.

I have been wondering why my four silkie bantams are losing weight, not laying and suddenly refusing to go into the coop at night. Tonight I saw an infestation of red mites on the nesting boxes and perches. I am a chicken newbie and I don’t know what to do. For tonight I have moved my girls...

Awww. Big Bird is gorgeous!