Thank you! I don't see mites and the feathers are more dirty and clumped together. However, I will clean it go tomorrow. I'll give her a bath and give calcium and isolate her for a few days.
I'm glad you got everything back! I've had a problem with mites here and I couldn't find anything. Nothing on the birds, nothing in the nest boxes, nowhere, no how. Yet they have loss of feathers around their vents and now going onto their legs. It must be mites or lice, not much else will cause this. So I am treating them right now for this and hope to see results sometime soon. That's why I brought it up, just as a heads up kind of thing.
Just an FYI again, I have been having issues with my birds having trouble with getting the proper calcium from their feed, as have a lot of other people on BYC. I've been seeing this here for months now and if you chek the threads here, you'll find 100s experiencing the same problems. If I had to guess, I'd say something is amiss with the supplements, or lack of them, being added to the feed. I have added oyster shell and occasionaly give them the calcium with D as a 'just in case'. I am also giving layer feed from 2 different companies, mixed together, hoping to have at least one of the brands cover their needs. Most times it works, but I do still get a couple of 'rubber eggs' now and then. It's happening in all of the fowl here as well, peafowl, turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese. The chickens the least, the ducks, the most. For it to be affecting all these types it has to be the feed, as they all get different feed. I will say I've had the least trouble with the Blue Seal Extra Egg layer feed.
