mites

Hello. I recently took in an injured bird and am wondering if the missing tail feathers are due to injury molt ot mites. I have attached pictures. She does seem to be scratching a lot but am unsure if that's due to molting mites or just regrowing injured feathers. Any advice? She has no visible...

For the first time in my 20 years of owning free-range chooks, we have Northern Fowl mites. I have no idea where they came from as we live on an isolated rural farm but suspect it's from a recent wood duck invasion... Fortunately, only one hen was infested (she was broody so an easy mite...

I am about 10 months into raising chickens for the first time ever. And therefore, my chickens are also 10 months old! I went out today and noticed that all of a sudden, at least 3 of my chickens (one rooster and two hens) have missing feathers on their back (near saddle area). My questions are...

Hi there everyone! I'm a first time chicken owner and new to BYC. I have two lovely silkie hens, who are 4 months old. They live in a room inside my house but play outside each and every morning until dusk! I recently found out that there were mites crawling around them. (Yea, disguising, I know...

Hi all :) I've had this slow spreading disease in my flock since I brought some girls home in September, I'll try to keep the story short. I've been keeping chickens a number of years now, never had a pest or disease problem... I also don't usually buy hens elsewhere, sorta have a hatching...

Our sweet girl Lava Lilly (don't even ask...my kids named her) feels like she's been losing weight, has had a pale comb, & has been losing feathers under her vent and now on her belly and under her wings. She's an 8-month-old we got from our local farm store. No idea what her breed is, because...

Hello, I need help getting rid of mites on one of my barred rock chickens. She also for some reason recently developed sort of a hunchback, where she doesn’t seem to be able to move her neck up at all on her own, and she looks like she is constantly looking down. The very big problem with this...

The pet shop gave me a Invermectin for mites. I put 2 drops on each hen's neck a week ago. Can I eat the eggs now? One hen looks a bit red and sore under her neck. They are moulting at the moment but this particular one never has all her feathers. She is the only one that sleeps in the coop...

I have have bugs of some description on the birds; they are about the size of a pin point barely a dot against a white dish. They are present on the birds during the day, do not present as mites from the descriptions I have read (but my 1st time with this situation) eg I swiped several onto my...

We rescued these ducks from a laying farm, but now I am having a hard time with a few. The others are healthy but these girls are constantly preening, moving their wings and their wings are very rough shape. Mites? Lice? Wetfeather? Or were they just malnurished for so long there is no helping...

So almost a month ago my rooster was acting very sick. He wouldnt eat or really drink. He was constantly sleepy and he didnt seem to want to lay down. His balance was also pretty off. After about a week of me putting water on his beak and mixing it with wet chicken seed he finally started to...

Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has come across this before? My 5 sex linked pullets are starting to have their legs turn from yellow to silver. I have done some googling and read up on scaly mites which can cause this, but could it be anything else? They are not in pain or irrated, but if...

I know they are part of the food chain, but I just want them to stay far away from me. In Florida it was the giant flying cockroaches and huge spiders. If you have poultry, then you likely know about mites and lice. Mosquitoes and ticks are the ones that torment us most in VA. Tell me which...

What can be done to help aid the recovery of a hen sick with mites (in addition to killing mites?) Discovered one of our hens has a bad case of black mites. She’s obviously not feeling well, her comb is pale and she seems lethargic and anemic. We’ve already cleaned out coop, bought the ultra...

I recently lost my blue buff brahma 6 month old chicken and I was told that it was suffering a mites infestation. How on earth do mites take over like this that the chickens' pain was unbearable... please tell me how i can prevent this and also how it is treated. thanks alot.

One of my roosters has been very sick the past few days. He's about 6 years old so I dont think its an old age thing. I first noticed his odd sickly behavior 3 days ago. He wouldnt eat much and he was staying away from most of the chickens in the pen. The day after that I immediately knew...

Well, my chickens seem to have a bad case of poultry lice and possibly mites as it looked like there were 2 different bugs when I looked at a feather with my pocket microscope (super handy!!). They all seemed to mostly be at the shaft of the feather in between the barbs. They (23 chickens and 5...

Good morning I’ve had an issue with my flock for awhile now. They constantly shake their heads. It’s like a quick shake, say, like you would to shake your hair out of your eyes. They also constantly scratch their heads. They have lost feathers ALL summer, like they are molting. They have a good...

Okay so I know this is not a new thing and other people have had this problem. But I've been through the forums and I've tried everything that I can find, and we still cannot permanently get rid of the mites. We treat them, they go away for a couple weeks and then they come back with a...