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hi - what did you end up doing about the lice eggs? I am exactly in your situation today. I noticed the lice on one hen and, after the online research, ordered Elector PSP. In the meantime, I gave a few of the girls a bath with Dawn and that's when I noticed the lice eggs. I removed as much as I...

I am curious about where folks get their Milk Thistle? I have a chicken that just got out of the vet and was prescribed Milk Thistle along with 3 other meds. As I am checking the prices at various online places I am seeing that I paid exorbitant amounts for the drugs from the vet office (4 to 5...

Thank you! My vet is having me do 1/2 that dose (.6 ml) daily so I need to check what his rationale was.

Yeah, much more reasonable. So are you giving your hens about 1ml for each dose?

Another question. For my 5lb hen, looks like my vet prescribed .6 cc once a day for 5 days to be repeated after 10 days. The drug is Fenbendazole 100mg/ml. Not sure if this concentration is the same as the Safeguard for goats solution. Any thoughts? I would prefer to get this over the counter if...

I like the bread idea. That I can probably manage. I am curious, do others routinely deworm the flock? I have had chickens for years and never dewormed. I would like to know what others do. Thank you for the advice.

Thank you for the replies. I can try the dose by chicken on the bread. It will be a challenge for 1 hen because she will not hand feed and she is hard to catch. This is the reason I wanted to do it in the water. Are you using a specific type of the Safeguard?

One of my hens was diagnosed today with Roundworms. The vet gave us Fenbendazole pills for 5 days. I know I need to deworm everyone else so I asked for a recommendation for something to put in the water. He suggested Wazine17 but I cannot find it - even online. Some threads are suggesting that...

Ok, I can rest a bit easier. They have tons of other things to forage. I almost think the Azaleas are for sport. They like to lay under them and then they pick at the flowers. But eventually they move on in the yard. Thank you all for replying!

So it looks like Azaleas are on the poisonous shrub list and I've always heard chickens are pretty smart about what they can eat and what they can't. However, I have a couple azalea shrubs in the garden and they seem to really like going over and plucking the flowers off. I have watched to see...

Yeah, I thought about that and did search around but for several of the last few days this week I didn't let her out of the run....and still no egg. It is really baffling to me.

Hello, I have 3 new additions to my flock (Ameraucana, Delaware, and Dominique). Hatched on Feb 29 this year. My Ameraucana started laying first at the end of July. I thought it was early - right before she was 5 months old. The other 2 started laying about a week later. They have been laying...

Thanks for the replies and advice. It makes me feel a little better to hear other stories (and the fact it is kind of a freak accident). I am now so paranoid and continually check their bottoms and under feathers. I am wondering if there is a topical that I can put on them that might prevent as...

I had 5 hens and recently my alpha hen (Barred Rock) was hit with a fly strike. I was out of town over a weekend and, when I got back, by the time I noticed that she had an issue around her bottom, it was too late. Feathers and skin were gone in a 6 in diameter area. There were tons of fly larva...

Wow - I just had a hawk attack yesterday too. My Alpha hen Barred Rock (Violet) was attacked yesterday by a juvenile hawk. She sustained several lacerations. I think I got there in time. My other girls where making a racket and when I went outside there were feathers everywhere and the hawk had...

I have 4 hens (about 22 weeks) that are very social (follow me around, come when I call with treats) but don't want me to pick them up. I got them when they were about 6 weeks old and have tried to handle them as much as I can. Mainly, I would have to corral them to a corner to pick them up...