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I have a quarentined chicken recovering from being picked on. She has healed good, but I noticed today she has lice. I have some DE ordered but I thought I read that someone used Adams flea & tick on theirs. Just wanted to give her some relief right away. Can I use the Adams on her?

Is PROZAP poultry & garden dust ok to use on my egg laying hens? It says it has Permethrin .25% in it.

My year old hen just hatched her 1st 4 chicks! YEAH! She is a free-roamer in the yard and I was wondering is there anything special I need to do for them or just let nature take it's course? Our yard is VERY well covered from predators and so far the other free-roaming chickens are doing...

I read some older posts on using Snake Away around a coop. I couldn't find anything on free-roaming chickens. If I use the Snake Away around the barn, do I need to sorry about my free-roamers getting to it?

Can I go ahead and feed my 14 chickens Layer feed? Right now they are on a Medicated starter feed. I have 7 that I hatched myself that I KNOW are 4 1/2 months old. I got about 7 more a month ago and added to the flock. The ones I added were about the same age...maybe off a few weeks. But I...

I noticed that my rooster (avatar pic) had this yellow mucus in his eye the other day. Past couple of nights he hadn't got up on the roost with the girls. Today he was hanging out by the house without his girls(they were off scavaging). I approached him and his sight seemed off, like he...

I currently have my 3 month olds on a medicated starter feed. What do I go to next? My local feed store only carries the Meedicated starter then he goes to a laying pellet. He also carries the scratch feed. I have adults seperate that get the laying pellets(available all day) and some...

My cockerels are 6 weeks old this weekend, and I want to know when I can start thinking of giving them away?

We live in south west Georgia and we just moved our 6week old chicks outside to their new brooder. Do I need to keep a light on them all night? I did when they were in the brooder in the house. I took the 250 watt bulb out today because I think they were getting too hot with it in the dog...

So, my kids and I have been very excited telling my family back home about our babies and the process of incubating and hatching we went through. My kids LOVE talking about the babies with my mom. Though, my mom doesn't understand the love because I DID NOT grow up on a farm. Today my mom...

Hopefully someone can explain to me why all-of-a-sudden my BO hen has started "puffing" up? I saw her do it once in the yard, then in the nest, then tonight in the barn when we went to help her get up to the roost, then on the roost! She seems very MOODY! Is it that time of the month or is...

When can you start giving baby chicks bread and stuff from the kitchen?

Hope you enjoy! Notice the chick on the left....Just when the chick on the right THINKS he's going to be the 1st out "all the way"....POP comes the other!

So, my 14 eggs are in lockdown and I have taken out the turner and the eggs are just laying on their side in the incubator. But, I was reading a thread about using a egg carton to hold the eggs in? Does anyone recomment this? BTW..this is my 1st hatch....all were moving when I candled...

Just wondering (because I am a new chicken owner, and can't find any reading on this)........I have my first set of chicks coming in a few days and they are coming from a flock of 7 with 1 of those being my rooster....I am already thinking of what I am going to do with the babies when they get...

It's day 7 and we candled our 16 eggs and we have movement in most! It is so neat to see this! (My son thought it was disturbing ). Everyone on here has been so helpful and reassuring for this newbie!

Question....I am incubating for the 1st time...I found out through a post that I had my humidity too high the first 48hrs(55-65%). I got it back down to around 30-35% now...But just wondering if I could have damaged my eggs? I have candeled at 4 days and just see a big blob floating around in...

What materials do I need to build a dust bath?

Is it the air sac? I'm only on day 2 and we candled and we see a dark spot that seems to be floating aound as we turn the egg...when we turn the egg with the "pointy side down" it floats to the top (the big side)???????What sould we be seeing?