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I didn't know there was a Permethrin spray.. sounds less messy. Anyway, for my two cents, I take old pantyhose and cut off the leg, I put the Permethrin powder in there, tie a knot. Since the nylon has elasticity, it makes it easy to "bounce" it all over the bird, it helps with applying just...

What a sweet story! Good Luck & Welcome!

My chickens went in to roost today at about 6 pm... it seems everyday it gets a little earlier and earlier. I wonder if I should get them to come back out, or just leave them be. It just seems that especially now when it will be light a couple more hours, that they would stay out. I've only...

Looks great! Welcome from Chilton, WI

Very Cool! Welcome to BYC!

Sorry it didn't work out

Welcome! Ahhh Irish Countryside, sounds lovely! Sounds like you have your hands full - chickens, and husbands, and children, and dogs, and geese! I guess husband shouldn't be plural! Good luck! ~Amanda

Hi Everyone! New to Chickens, New to Wisconsin. Very interesting stuff

Oooh! How exciting! Welcome! You sound like me trying to figure out which breeds I have

I'm new to taking care of chickens! Yesterday I was holding one (6 months old) for only about 1 minute, and when I put her down there was a cluster of about 20 light brown bugs on the sleeve of my jacket. After I stopped screaming, and the heebie-jeebies subsided, I went out and purchased...

Thank you! So, you have to have a certain number of posts before you can post photos?

I'm sorry you are worried. That certainly sounds like a nutritional problem, especially if your hen won't eat Oyster Shell. I would try supplementing additional calcium into her diet to see if that helps, and then at least potentially rule out something else. Is this a free-range hen...

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to have found a forum (via an inflight magazine) that inspired me to go out and buy some chickens! Well, it inspired me to beg my boyfriend for chickens, which inspired him to roll his eyes, BUT one day he surprised me with 4 of my very own! He was a more focused...