I found one of my hens today has one of her eyes closed and there were two tiny white bugs on the lid crawling around. I checked the rest of her body and my other chickens and didn't see any more of the bugs. Is this an eye injury or bug related and what should I do for her? Thank you!
1) she's...
Our neighborhood has historically had a problem with boxelder bugs aka boxelder beetles. Every year we had great swarms of them around the foundation of our house, living in the siding, and even getting into the house! We dislike poisons and artificial chemicals, and nothing of an organic...
I went to clean my duck coop this morning and saw it was infested with small flying, jumping black bugs. They were crawling around in the straw bedding. It has been pouring rain for a week straight so the straw in my run was super wet and dirty. The back of the run that turns into the fully...
hello i have one hen, a rooster and 4 chicks. these past 3 days ago i was feeling itching on my neck and face. and today i found a small bug that was causing it moving on my hand i asked my brother and he confirms that he has it too . then i found that the same bug in my chicken feeder moving...
Anyone know what kind of bug this is.it almost looks like a weird tick. Found about 20 or so on one of my laying hens. All the hens (6) haven't laid a single egg in about 2-3 days. They seem completely healthy. Just held one of them and found this. Any help is appreciated!!
What are these little tiny bugs everywhere!? They appeared recently, at first only a few, and in no time at all they are now everywhere!!! And I do mean everywhere!! The storage sheds outside, food and water buckets, the outside of the coop, some bedding that had spilled out, etc.! :barnie
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Hi there, I have some sort of an emergency with my hen. We've had her for almost 2 years, but about 2 days ago I noticed her left eye was swollen, which it wasn't the day before, I thought it was just going to go down in a couple of days, but it doesn't seem to be going down and the eye socket...
My 7 week old duck, Dragon, has been injured by a hawk. Any tips on how to care for an injured duck? Anything to make him more comfortable or happier? He also has a lot of tiny but densely packed fly eggs deep in his feathers, any tips for that? They are stuck tight and I don‘t want to hurt him...
When I went to the Games Jokes and Fun forum, it was backwards, the last post first, and the first post last. I went into it directly, and it didn't happen, but when I clicked the back arrow on my Kindle, it was there. Here is a picture.My question is, is this something I could get again, and is...