Hello friends,
I just noticed yesterday, that one of my hens, a Cuckoo Marans approximately 2 years old, has odd looking legs. In sunlight, her legs appear white while her feet appear her normal color. She is well otherwise, her gait is fine, (walking, scratching as usual). Her poops are...
My hen Potato is acting off. She may be favouring the one leg just slightly. I noticed she her legs and feet looked weird, almost “crusty”.
She just had a warm bath and I took a baby toothbrush and gently cleaned her feet. This is an after bath photo.
Would you guys say this is scaly legs...
Hi this is my first post!
About this time last year I got two wyandotte (silver laced) and two gold-sex linked chicks. My two wyandotte's have been losing feathers around their neck and wing area for the last couple weeks. I have checked for lice and mites and can't tell anything, and their...
I'm a chicken Newbie! One of my girls is molting and she's got a lot of white flakey stuff under her feathers. Would that be bugs or mites or just the dust from molting?
I would love to make a dust bath for them but I live in Oregon and it is so rainy right now there is not a dry spot for them...
The best way to kill mites is to warm some water up but not too hot , pour a little soap and soak your chicken for few minutes! If you begin to bathe your chicken in the process you will notice the mites dead in the water as the soap kills the mites extremely fast!
Never have I had any...
I saw one of my silkies standing off by herself today. Went to investigate and saw her vent area was really dirty and she wasn't running away from me as much as she normally does. Have her a bath and blow dry and didn't see any living parasite on her but she has these raised hard lesions near...