BYC Café

[Shadrach]

My 2 Tolbunt polish hens made it through the night! That coop has a bad mite infestation, so I am going to clean out both sides and spray it well, then check all the chickens again.

Red mite I hope.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Never seen the red ones here thought just anyway

 

[Shadrach]

I've got someone coming to look at Mel's chicks tomorrow. I have told them even if I decide to let them have they can't have them until February.

 

[Shadrach]

Never seen the red ones here thought just anyway

What type of mites do you get then?

 

[pennyJo1960]

A local chicken club member or someone new

 

[pennyJo1960]

plain old little black bodies here

 

[Shadrach]

A local chicken club member or someone new

It's someone new. Someone told them about me. They want to start a flock. They want to see the parents, siblings etc; quite rightly so imo.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good of you to let them then helps you yes

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Few and far between seems to describe just about everything in WY

Ha, I believe that!

 

[Meg-in-MT]

It's the result of shedding bits of the intestines Meg. It's normal. What caught me out was I have never seen it from a chick that age before. Talking to the chicken club this morning its more common at this age than I thought. I took a sample.
One might think the chick had coccidia, but coccidia blood tends to be redder and spotty.
I've seen all three chicks poop both cecal and normal poop a few times since and all the poop looks okay.
One of the guys mentioned that mistaking this for coccidia and treating as if it was coccidia within 24 hours of such a shed can damage the intestines.
I'm very impressed with the knowledge of most of the chicken club members.
One guy for example has a left footed hen. How many people would even notice that.
His left footed hen has the eye functions reversed as well.
If you watch your hens going up a ramp at roost time for example the right footed and eyed hens will all jump onto the ramp on the left side, right eye and right foot closest to the ramp. Quite a few chicken keepers here have coops well off the ground. It makes it much harder for predators and rats in particular to get in; plus you can inspect the underside of the coops.

Wow, that's very interesting! My first thought was coccidia, but it was kind of an odd color. That's good to know about the damage that can be done, because a lot of people here say to treat for coccidia even if that isn't what it is. "Won't hurt them, anyway".

I had no idea that there were lefty and righty hens... The thought never occurred to me.