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It's been a year and a half--hardly overnight. People here told me to use wire cutters and it did/does help, otherwise they probably wouldn't even have legs by this point.

Hello! I'm looking for advice on how to handle INCREDIBLY persistent scaly leg mites. Over the past year my flock has been dealing with this and I feel like I have tried everything other than dunking their legs in gasoline every day for 1.5 weeks. Some of their legs are almost deformed by the...

Update: the adoptive mother only lets the chick sleep under her. In the morning, she pushes the chick away and the chick’s original mama takes care of her all day, then back under adoptive mama to sleep. I have never seen anything like this 😂 but the chick is alive and well, so we’re all just...

Y’ALL an amazing thing happened tonight! I found the “bad mom” up in the coop tonight (normally the mamas nest on the ground in the coop and then I help them all up into the nesting/roosting area) and assumed she had left her last baby to die alone outside…but when I went to put the other mama...

I do have some anti-mite spray—is that safe to use where the chicks are bedding?

Laid out when dead or how am I letting them out? I let them out to free range every day. I’ve been finding them just dead in the coop (when I let them out first thing in the morning) with no visible injuries. I had no idea mites could kill chicks though! This mama does not have them (that I...

This is not either of their first times. The murder mama is a buff orp, and she goes broody a lot. She has probably raised 6 hatches and is normally a great mama. No marks on the babies, but they’re only dying with mama and not out in the yard. All of the chicks came from the same hatchery...

She leaves the nest a lot though! All day she’s out foraging with them. It’s very confusing and sad :(

1.5 weeks ago I gave two broody hens four babies each. One hen has all of her babies and the other one has lost three. I keep finding them dead under her in the morning, and one I found dead near her at the end of the day. I don’t know if she’s killing them by accident or on purpose. My question...

Update: she’s still in the bathroom/chicken ER, but she’s looking so good!! I have noticed her comb is very pale and her face is rather dry and chapped. I assume it’s from being inside for so long. Any tips on hydrating topicals I can use?

Lots of new feather growth!!

I think so! I haven’t gotten the safeguard in the mail yet, but the doxycycline seems to be killing them. There was one more large dump after the initial photo and then a much smaller one yesterday.

This is what the wound looks like tonight, still horrible but definitely improving 🤞🏻

Thank you!

The attack would have been sometime on Tuesday, but I’m not sure if that matters. I just ordered some safeguard. A review says to put 5ml in 4 gallons of water for chickens. Would you recommend doing that once or more than once?

No, I haven’t. I’ve had chickens for 4 years and have never seen any. I will do it now though, thanks for the rec! I wondered if she already had them and the doxy drove them out.

She’s still alive! But she’s pooping worms? Her poop was solid yesterday and this morning. There were a couple of small spots of blood in her wound tonight, which intuitively feels like a good sign? Gave her another dose of doxy.

Thank you!! I will go ahead and order some just in case. I wouldn’t say she smells great, but I am familiar with the rancid death odor and haven’t smelled it yet. I gave her some doxycycline tonight, fingers crossed.

Actually, just checked and she has pooped since. No blood this time, just runny. She’s eating well.

Wyorp- unfortunately I applied neosporin last night before those messages were posted. I am removing the dead ones though, and had already done two thorough peroxide rinses before neo so hopefully it’s okay. She actually ate a ton of mealworms today! I’ll get a poop shot soon, but she’s on clean...