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Oh, and Reikistar, you mentioned earlier that the neck feathers won't grow back until their next molt, I was wondering why that is. I see no new feathers starting to come in, so I believe you 100%, but I was just curious if you knew why.

We are going to buy some DE to put in a mini pool to help and holpefully prevent this from happening again, but for now, we are going to try sevin 5% since it doesn't sound that the DE will do the job alone, and I read that ivermectin isn't the best for lice since lice eat feathers and dead skin...

I've never seen a gnat here at our house but I will look it over. Otherwise it's sounds like it's probably the lice, by big guns I simply meant extreme measures, I read a lot of people have sucess with Ivermectin, but sounds like some pretty strong stuff, but many people also say that the DE...

And they get free range every other day from 3:00 to dark, we don't let them out constantly because we like to let our dogs run free and they would gladly enjoy some chicken, we lock the dogs up during that time.

Not really, some are better than others, but I believe all of them are losing neck feathers, and I thought that at first as well, but wouldn't there be holes, and blood spots in the skin if they were being torn out, the skin looks pretty healthy minus the fact there are no feathers, also the...

I have 19 cochin hens, 2 roosters, and 6 chicks at the moment. All of the full grown Cochins are missing neck feathers, some are to the point that they are looking more like turkens. This has never happened before. They don't seem to be molting as they have been this way for over a month and...