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i have a 10 month old chicken not eating or drinking as well as usual, huddling against wall, pale comb with white scale--some balding around head and eyes, missing feathers in front of tail, some picking at herself--wt loss--i have looked at mites, lice, pox, etc and not sure of a matching...

haven't been on the site for awhile--great job in the update!

i am just tagging on this topic as far as bedding material--i get it that the cedar chips are not good, so we have been using soft cloths over OSB board for our little chicks--we wash those out and exchange them twice a day--now that they are growing by leaps and bounds--what other materials are...

we used a similar method for mice except we used coarse ground cornmeal and cement--we mixed it up and put it out in little bowls--didn't take long for the mice to chomp away at the grit and then we had no more mice problems--i agree that the method for killing is that the mixture hardens in the...

i know there must be some correlation between size and number--we had older chickens and they were never bothered--but then why would they when they had the chicks i guess--anyway, we will probably just keet them well protected until they are much larger then they were last time--thx!

Thx much! we will keep poison out and not put the chickens in the coop until they are larger for sure--and right now we are reinforcing everything with hardware cloth--keep your fingers crossed!

I am new to this forum so hope i am doing this correctly--we had a neighboring farm abandoned and buildings demolished--unfortunately we had gotten some new chicks and we were invaded by timber rats (perhaps from their usual habitat being demolished) and all chicks were killed. we are preparing...