I was cleaning out my subscribed posts list and ran across your questions.
Vitamins and electrolytes are used mostly when a chicken is ill. Some also use vitamins for brand new hatchery chicks. I alternated ACV with vitamins in the water when my hatchery chicks were new til a couple of weeks old.
Wood ash is a great dust bath for them. Some put some DE in (read up here; there are two kinds, and one will kill them....) Sand and plain old dirt also work. Or some mixture of these. I am sure other stuff also works.
Fleas? Chickens get different kinds of mites, but if they get fleas, I am not familiar with this. (But do understand I have only been doing this for a year or so.) Again, there is lots of info here on how people deal with mites. Adam's spray from the vet (which is a flea spray!,) Sevin dust (but you need the correct type) and DE are some of the ways. One person here remarked that if you have chickens, you have mites. If so, and I don't doubt it, you just need to research and choose a plan.
When I first found this forum, I read for hours through sections like predators and diseases and coops. The search feature is also great, esp. after I learned to select "posts" instead of "topics."
And if you can't find something, someone always seems willing to jump in and try to help.
Vitamins and electrolytes are used mostly when a chicken is ill. Some also use vitamins for brand new hatchery chicks. I alternated ACV with vitamins in the water when my hatchery chicks were new til a couple of weeks old.
Wood ash is a great dust bath for them. Some put some DE in (read up here; there are two kinds, and one will kill them....) Sand and plain old dirt also work. Or some mixture of these. I am sure other stuff also works.
Fleas? Chickens get different kinds of mites, but if they get fleas, I am not familiar with this. (But do understand I have only been doing this for a year or so.) Again, there is lots of info here on how people deal with mites. Adam's spray from the vet (which is a flea spray!,) Sevin dust (but you need the correct type) and DE are some of the ways. One person here remarked that if you have chickens, you have mites. If so, and I don't doubt it, you just need to research and choose a plan.
When I first found this forum, I read for hours through sections like predators and diseases and coops. The search feature is also great, esp. after I learned to select "posts" instead of "topics."
And if you can't find something, someone always seems willing to jump in and try to help.
