Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[satay]

Looks great Ash.

My rooster has has also just begun doing rooster things.

Lol. My wellie roosters are enjoying there young male hood too

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Lol. My wellie roosters are enjoying there young male hood too

haha, he is getting so excited! as soon as he gets out of the coop from crowing his head of, he chases all the girls around. He is like a little puppy dog!

 

[sydney quailman]

off the topic, car show on the 11th may 2013 at harrys cafe dewheels liverpool from 6pm, raising money for cancer council, relay for life. all welcome to support this event. thank you sam

 

[IamSamSam]

This is for sure my flock.

Pellets, wet pellets,dry Mash, fine mash, wet mash, scraps, chick food, wet chick food, ALL kinds.

Don't forget the dog food

 

[mogvgb]

Hi all,

I have come for some advice because I am a little stumped.

My bantam sussex has gone broody, and as a result I have a docile toy chicken that I can accost for cuddles a couple of times a day.

With the closer contact I have noticed that she has some sort of mites or lice, specifically under the chin. I have seen tiny ones that are clearish/yellow an slightly larger ones that look reddy brown/black.

These are definitely on her, and mostly under the chin, some on the body. Not noticably more under the wings or near the vent, they are relatively fast moving (it is hard to 'catch' one), active during the day and though I have searched I cannot find any mites in the coop itself - certainly no clusters of them.

I am getting some drops and some dust (should be here by Friday I hope) and will be giving the coop a thorough clean this weekend, the coop itself already has DE everywhere and I rubbed her down with DE as soon as I realised she had mites, and added more DE to their dirt bath.

Once she snaps out of her broody trance she eats heartily, bathes, runs a round and has a good time. She scratches at her chin a bit, but not to the point of feather loss or anything.

Anyone know what sort of mite I am dealing with? Anything else I should be doing?

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Don't forget the dog food

haha, and cat food!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Hi all,

I have come for some advice because I am a little stumped.

My bantam sussex has gone broody, and as a result I have a docile toy chicken that I can accost for cuddles a couple of times a day.

With the closer contact I have noticed that she has some sort of mites or lice, specifically under the chin. I have seen tiny ones that are clearish/yellow an slightly larger ones that look reddy brown/black.

These are definitely on her, and mostly under the chin, some on the body. Not noticably more under the wings or near the vent, they are relatively fast moving (it is hard to 'catch' one), active during the day and though I have searched I cannot find any mites in the coop itself - certainly no clusters of them.

I am getting some drops and some dust (should be here by Friday I hope) and will be giving the coop a thorough clean this weekend, the coop itself already has DE everywhere and I rubbed her down with DE as soon as I realised she had mites, and added more DE to their dirt bath.

Once she snaps out of her broody trance she eats heartily, bathes, runs a round and has a good time. She scratches at her chin a bit, but not to the point of feather loss or anything.

Anyone know what sort of mite I am dealing with? Anything else I should be doing?

I just finished dealing with these. I also couldn't find a definite description of them, all the searching I did was mixed and it kept coming back to the Red mite. But I am pretty sure they are Northern Fowl Mites. They live on the body and the ones I had came in all colours. White, brown, red, clear. Just weird. So I just treated them like red mites.
Now that I think back on it. I did only have them on my broody hens. None on any of the other chickens. But I just used a mix of Lime, sulfur and DE to duct them all individually in. I changed all the bedding and flooring and burnt it all, then disinfected my coop and nest shed and pressure washed it all out. Then just let the poop on the wooden floor for a week and just used some temp straw for nest boxes as they recommended to repeat this in 10 days. So I did that all again but didn't have to burn as much stuff.

Then you should be able to put all the material back mixed with the dust ( that's what I do, just in case ).
But I was to scared.lol. So my hens had no material flooring for about 2 weeks and I kept adding DE to the nesting material, so like every time they went to nest they were like dust bathing.lol.

In those 2 weeks I also "smoked" my coop out.lol. I went over the top.lol. I made a small fire in the coop and smoke my whole coop out. You couldn't go in there it was so smokey, you couldn't even see.lol.

I then decided to put the material back and mixed it well and good with DE and Lime.

It has now been about 1 week with a material floor and I'm still just not sure.lol.

Good luck with yours. I would recommend breaking you broody, unless you want to hatch, in that case get rid of the mites off of her and move her to place were she can't pick the, up ( out of the run all together ). Like inside.

Good luck!

 

[appps]

Just treated mites on my broodie silkie too, only time we get to hold her

I had got a little slack changing the hay in the nesting box, had been a good month or so but it wasn't messy Thinking I need to do it dirty or not from now on.

 

[satay]

I have only had lice/mites once and I used pestine seemed to get rid of them. I now use garlic in their water along with acv. I get a whole bulb of garlic put it in a saucepan of water and boil for about 30mins. Let cool and throw the bulb. The garlicy water I put in a bottle and just add a cap to their water when I change it. Not sure if that is the reason I have not had them since but it has been a good 4 years since I had had any pests on the girls. Also saw somewhere about putting the outside husks from the garlic in your nest boxes. Haven't tried that one yet though.

 

[satay]

off the topic, car show on the 11th may 2013 at harrys cafe dewheels liverpool from 6pm, raising money for cancer council, relay for life. all welcome to support this event. thank you sam

That's a great cause Sam. Hubby would be their for the drool factor of the cars if we lived closer. That's what you get for marrying a panelbeater I guess lol.