I think this hen has feather mites that eat her new feathers. I have been battling this for 2 months now and am starting to wonder if I have misdiagnosed. She is the only one in the flock that has this. I’m on the 3rd round of Bath then ivermectin every 10 days.
Before that, I used premo...
I thought I’d gotten the feather mite situation under control but it seems they’re back - the worst affected is Polly again as they seem to be around her face this time and I’m just wondering what I can do. I’ll be moving them into a larger and easier to clean shed today also.
I tried to do the...
Help! My hen is sitting on eggs in the cracking stage about to hatch. I moved my hen to an isolated coop for her safey from some bullys. But I just found some sort of feather mites all over my hens inner feathers. I put dimostacious Earth all over her and then relized that may be harmful for the...