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They're not molting. How do I check for lice or mites? I have never wormed - do I need to? My chickens have always seemed very healthy. Bright red combs and all, until now- they're a little duller now. Nice healthy looking down jackets :). Bright eyes. I've even been putting a pan of...

Thanks so much! I'll start weaning them off the heat - even tho Seattle is having an Alaska-moment snowwise today, it's not that cold (31)

Well I'm in Seattle, I've always kept the heat lamp on in the winter (day and night). The last batch of chickens didn't behave this way - they went out during the day and ate. These ones don't. Given that they have adapted, by this time in the winter, to the heat lamp, I can't take it away...

This has happened before (last winter). My chickens virtually stop eating. They sit on their roost all day, under the infrared lamp. I put them out in the run, only to have them run back in and get back on the roost (sometimes after eating a tiny bit). They don't seem horribly thin when I...