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Thank you for this helpful information! Just to clarify, if you do the alcohol treatment, it needs to be repeated 2 or 3 times?

Thanks. I think I will just go ahead and treat it just in case it is leg mites. I don't think the redness is from ammonia burn. I clean the coop and run out weekly, and clean out poop under roosts more frequently.

I noticed that two of my hens' legs and feet look red and after looking closer, it looks like some of the scales are raised on their legs. Is this scaly leg mites and would that explain the redness? My other hen looks like her scales are slightly raised, but her legs are not red. The two with...

I have ordered 10 chicks from Ideal Poultry, scheduled to ship on March 22nd. All females - 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Easter Eggers, 2 Speckled Sussex, and 2 Welsummer. Looking forward to the end of March! We are in the process of finishing a new coop that will house the 3...

They don't free range, so their places to lay are limited. The have an enclosed chicken yard they can roam in during the day, but there really isn't any place I wouldn't see an egg. I looked to make sure!

I thought that might be the case, but all of my others are still laying?

She puffs up a little, but doesn't growl and doesn't try to peck me or anything.

I am new to raising chickens, so I may be worrying too much, but I have a young hen that has not laid an egg in 4 days. She is a Buff Orpington and is about 8 months old. She started laying in July and has been a very regular layer. She spends a lot of time in the nesting box, so I thought...

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Hi everyone! This is my first post here as I am new to raising chickens. I have 4 hens, 2 buff orpington and 2 barred rocks that are about 15 weeks old. Over the last several weeks I have noticed that there are a lot of feathers in the yard and in the coop. Is this normal? I saw one of the...