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What is the best organic treatment for egg carrying bacteria, ecoli, salmonella?

Our 2 year old Silver laced Wyandotte has never seemed to recover from her molt this past winter. Her feathers are stringy and weak. I have checked her and the coop, both at night and during the day, for mites and lice. I haven't found anything. We have two other chicken who don't seem to...

Have not checked for lice. Not sure how to check. She seems to be on the lower end of the pecking order, but I haven't noticed the other hens pecking at her. Lice could be it though. I will have to look into that.

Our Silver Laced Wyandotte molted this past winter and has not been able to grow back her normal thick coat of feathers. The feathers are not full and some have just the center stock (mainly those on the tail feathers). I'm thinking she may have worms, although our other chickens don't seem to...

I'm sure this is not all that abnormal but our Bard Rock is molting. Many of the feathers are gone from her neck. I can see the new feathers coming. Is there anything to keep them from freezing to death. We don't use artificial heat and they are quite hardy birds. Thanks

Thanks for the response. I figured she was using energy to get well again. She seems to be doing much better!

My wife and I have 3 backyard chickens that are now a year old. We have a white leghorn, silver laced wyandote, and a bard rock. The white leghorn has been at the top of the pecking order but recently got into the neighbors yard and ate some sort of chemical in the granular form. I'm not sure...