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  1. Countryhippie

    What do you use to prevent parasites and mites with your flock?

    Hello, The other day I was having a conversation with one of my friends who also has chickens. We both used different methods to prevent mites and parasites on our chickens. So out of curiosity im curious what everyone else uses with there flock. What do you use for parasite prevention and...
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  2. C

    Permethrin dip or powder for my chickens?

    What form of permethrin has a longer lasting residual killing effect for mites and lice on chickens. The powder permethrin where you dust onto your birds or the concentrate you dilute in water and dip them into? I will have to be treating my animals more often as there are many wild birds. So...
  3. Shannon89815

    CHOPPED GARLIC ADDED TO FEED - BEST CURE FOR MITES/LICE

    Out of our 20 hens we had 1 that we had been calling “Bald Chicken”. Her underbelly was un feathered, as were her head, tops/shoulder part of her wings, and front of neck, and all exposed areas were beat red and raw looking. Only 2 of the other 19 hens showed some signs of baldness on heads...
  4. Duckduckgoosie

    mites? update: lice

    Just went to trim extra feathers around one hen’s vent that were clumped up w poop- and I see many light colored crawling bugs. Small flock, six hens. What do I need to do? There’s deep bedding in the roost area for warmth through winter. I do fresh sawdust on tbe poop shelf daily. Does that...
  5. rmanney

    What’s on my roosters’ combs??

    My roosters have black spots on their combs, and now they have some white. They’ve been vaccinated. Could it be from mites? Or fungus? Some of the black spots will scratch off, but the roo did not like me messing with them. Any suggestions on doctoring, care, and prevention? Thanks, friends!
  6. fuzzi

    Hay: Pros and Cons?

    I've been reading numerous threads about having hay in or around the run, and the comments run the gamut from good to bad. Some think hay is the best, others warn against it harboring rats, mice, mites, and disease. Why I am asking is that a friend has access to free hay bales, the large round...
  7. makNcheese

    I can not get my birds to gain weight!!!

    Hi everyone! I’d like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable about chickens at this point, but this is something I have never struggled with before. I absolutely cannot get my birds to gain weight. I thought it was their feed so I switched to higher protein and add game bird feed. After that I got...
  8. B

    Chooks not right

    My flock of 11 girls aren't going great. There are 9 Hylines, around 1yo, 1 black Australorp around 18 months and 1 old red chook. I treated them for red blood mites about a month ago, cleaned everything, multiple treatments with pestene powder, both the girls and their night lock up area. They...
  9. J

    What does this look like? Does it look like mites or pecking

    this is on my rooster i have did some research and need some help i dont see any mites or any discharge on him this is what it looks like im not sure if it appeared like this over night or the past couple of days i dont remember seeing it yesterday but i may have just not noticed it the black...
  10. 0livia Face

    Mites in winter?

    Been in the low 30's for weeks where we live in PA. While cutting nails, I noticed some of the girl's scales lifting. From what I've read, scaly leg mites aren't usually active in freezing temps. Is this not true? Could there be another reason why their scales may be lifting? The girl in the...
  11. C

    Should I use Ivermectin Cattle pour on for Mites?

    Hi, is ivermectin safe for chickens to treat mites? I’m looking at the topical pour on cattle solution, a blue bottle on Amazon. I am also concerned about if it will burn the backs of their necks or if I can overdose them and they could die. Also the egg withdrawal time, it says seven days...
  12. C

    Poultry Mite Treatment that actually works??

    Hi, So the past week or several days or so I have found bites on my body which I am positive are poultry mites from my chickens. Dealt with mites before last year summer and got rid of em with permethrin powder but now they are back. The permethrin works but it is a hassle to apply to the...
  13. M

    No pooping and extra picking

    Hello fellow chicken lovers :) We have a lovely 8-9 week old silkie (assuming girl) who's acting a bit funny - shes out with her mum and the rest of the flock but we check them all the time for issues and we noticed recently that she lost (or likely picked out) all of the feathers under her...
  14. G

    Molting at 8 months?

    This is my first backyard flock, so maybe I’m overreacting, but two of my 8 month old girls are doing what appears to be a mini-molt. One is a Black Star/Black Sex Link and the other is a Gold Star/Red Sex Link. The black one is about two or three weeks older than the other one, not that I think...
  15. mushytrousers

    Identifying Bugs / Mites on Chicken?

    Terrible photo I know, but is anyone able to identify these bugs / mites I’ve found on my polish hen? I figure they’re mites but what kind? I see a lot of people have issues with red mites but these look nothing like them to me? And can mites kill a chicken, or cause neurological issues? This...
  16. C

    Elector PSP in Laundry (Children in Home)

    I bought some Elector PSP for our chicken coop mites. I bought the vial at the feed store and put it in my canvas bag for safekeeping. Well, it leaked. I didn’t want to throw the bag away so I threw it in the wash. We are about ten loads past that day and the drum still smells like Elector PSP...
  17. A

    Scabs around vent

    Hello! I have 6 chickens we got back in April. We have had no problems until I noticed scab above one of our hens vent a few days ago. Noticed the others were pecking it and I figured she had some poopy butt they were pecking until I really had a good look. Yesterday I found another chicken with...
  18. J

    Help me identify these small red bugs. Mites?

    I was sitting in the run yesterday when I noticed a few of these small red bugs crawling on a few pine flakes on the ground and on their waterer, which was sitting on a wood pallet. I’ve already ordered permethrin dust and spray, which will be delivered between today and Wednesday. I don’t...
  19. B

    Hen Losing Feathers! Bad mites?

    My 1 year old hen, Rosie, is rapidly losing feathers, mostly on her back. She just finished becoming broody, and this is her first "molt" of adulthood. She has overall been pretty healthy, and is a black australorp/ISA brown cross and her parents have no issues. I'm thinking it's bad feather...
  20. EriLynCap

    Newbie with potentially deteriorating chickens

    I apologize in advance for the length and for any future clarification questions. I am terrified of making things worse due to thinking I understand and being wrong. I have 4 chickens and a rooster. When I got them mid July they were this year's hens to my understanding and seemed very healthy...
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