So I’m sure this has been asked before but I’m struggling with re infestation. For the last 8 months or so I spot small orange lice on my birds, mainly around the vents. I treat them with poultry dust on the vent, up the belly and back, but stay away from their heads. I completely clean out...
So I have 8 chickens, about 8-1/2 weeks old, of which I am pretty confident 3 are pullets and 5 are cockerels (one has definitely crowed now)and I have every intention of rehoming the cockerels but I think they have mites as they scratch a lot and they're feathers are humped up on their backs a...
So yesterday our newly adopted rooster started acting really sick and didn't honestly look like he was going to make it.
Upon further investigation from advice given on here we found that he was covered in Lice and or Mites. Put him in Quarantine and treated him with Poultry Dust and made...
We've all been there. That horrible hot summer night that doesn't cool down- with no air moving and a bunch of chickens who refuse to spread out on the roost, though they're all panting with their wings dropped at their sides.
When I was designing the coop, I didn't find anything about Poultry...
One of my hens has BRIGHT red skin on her chest and stomach and has less and less feathers everytime I see her. It looks like she’s breaking them or plucking them out herself. I’ve never treated for lice or mites.. as these are my first chickens. (They’re about 1.5 years old.) I have examined...