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D'oh! (Newbie lightbulb moment here.) So that's why I could never find the vent . . . .

It is nothing short of miraculous to have time-honored chicken folk with wisdom, advice, encouragement, and admonishment -- all as needed -- for the herds of us chicken newbies, and only a couple of finger-taps away. Hey, you're magic genies! Seriously, heartfelt thanks to all of you for being...

Double post, sorry -- Eek, just looked those up because I thought they were only in Australia. Looks like they're in Oahu, South America, southern Texas, and Florida as well. I hope your chicken is okay. Maybe you can contact your local extension agent/ag school to ask about the cane toad...

Eek, just looked those up because I thought they were only in Australia. Looks like they're in Oahu, South America, southern Texas, and Florida as well. I hope your chicken is okay. Maybe you can contact your local extension agent/ag school to ask about the cane toad population in your area and...

Awwwww, sweet mom and chick!

All's well. :-) I dusted the hen and her bedding heavily with ashes. The next day she was still loaded with mites -- I think the Silkie feather structure protects the mites. I put a dab of pyrethrin spray on her topknot, and the next morning the mites were gone from her head. But I didn't want...

Totally not an OT, but it was me with the broody Silkie so I can tell you what I saw: On a white silkie-feathered bird: tiny but visible red dots scattered about halfway down the feathers. On a white regular-feathered bird: tiny but visible red dots scattered on top the feathers. On colored...

Not scared! Reading! and very thankful for all your help. :-)

So very well put, so I'll just say, x 2. Heck. x 2,000,000.

I was gnashing my teeth at the feed store today. The brand they carry says quite proudly on the front that it has only vegetable protein. That is so NOT a selling point for an omnivore's diet. I'd be quite happy to see "ground whole rats" in the list of ingredients.

I treated all the wood in the nest boxes and brooder -- floors, walls, ceilings, cracks and crevices, etc. with pyrethrin/sulfur spray. I could find no mites on the roosts or in samples of bedding around the coop or on four of the other birds, although I intend to check them all over the next...

Buggy News of the Day Buggy Hen is solid on the eggs in the brooder. It's easier to keep an eye on her when she's up off the ground. She still has a heavy, heavy sprinkling of red pepper, i.e. mites, throughout her hairy feathers. They weren't moving and I thought they were dead after all...

What I wouldn't give for a great big sink like that in my own house . . .

The turkey looks good, too! ;-)

Okay, it's time to play, "Just How Stoopid Can She Be?" (Answer: epically, incredibly, voluminously stoopid.) After treating my mite-ridden broody, she wouldn't go back on her eggs. I put the eggs under another accommodating hen. When the mitey broody started sitting on different eggs in the...

Well, now I'm gonna have to go and look at the bottle. The warning label made it sound very innocuous. . . . Just looked at it again. It's 0.2% sulfur, 0.01% Pyrethrins, and the rest inert ingredients. I am new to all this, and in my paltry defense, everything looks scary when it happens in...

Many thanks for all the help with mites! I don't feel quite so helpless (or itchy) anymore. ;-) DH gathered the wood ashes he made yesterday. My daughter and I hit the nest boxes: out with the litter, sprayed with pyrethrin, put in fresh litter, threw ashes all around inside. Then my daughter...

Little red dots, nearly too small to see. A magnifying glass didn't provide much detail, except that they're basically round. I don't know if they're plain old poultry mites or northern fowl mites, or if it makes a difference. I bought a budgie years ago with lice. As I recall, they looked...

Thank you -- that's reassuring! These darn critters are so small but so itchy and seemingly spring from nowhere, in the zillions. Scary bitty beasts!

Thanks for the lightning-fast reply! :-) The shower seemed to do the trick -- major scrubbing like you wouldn't believe -- and I'll look into some Rid-Ex tomorrow just in case. Should I wash the hen? Or just dust her with ashes? How often? And what would you put in/on the nest boxes? I...