Very excited to be working with chickens. Currently have a mixed group of ladies: 2 buff orps,3 silver wyandottes, 3 australorpes, 3 easter eggers, 3 leg horn australorp cross, 3 wellsummers. 15 chanteclers (11days old) and 18 pekin ducks(2weeks old)!
The ducks is what motivated me to finally join the forum and get a profile. For the past two days when I go to give water food or extra bedding to the ducks my hand has come away covered in mites!! So because the ducks have been housed with my main grouop of ladyies I now have to tread the whole flock and coop. The past post on treating mites have been very helpful and I will begin treatment on Sunday morning. I suspect the mights might have come in on the ducks which were purchased from McMurry hatchery. Has anyone else gotten mights this way? My girls also do not have access to a dust spot (they are in a mobile tractor on pasture) so I am going to make one for them out of an old kiddy pool. Any ideas as to what to use in the kiddy pool? Thanks all.
The ducks is what motivated me to finally join the forum and get a profile. For the past two days when I go to give water food or extra bedding to the ducks my hand has come away covered in mites!! So because the ducks have been housed with my main grouop of ladyies I now have to tread the whole flock and coop. The past post on treating mites have been very helpful and I will begin treatment on Sunday morning. I suspect the mights might have come in on the ducks which were purchased from McMurry hatchery. Has anyone else gotten mights this way? My girls also do not have access to a dust spot (they are in a mobile tractor on pasture) so I am going to make one for them out of an old kiddy pool. Any ideas as to what to use in the kiddy pool? Thanks all.
