I need some advice/help.

[PetesMom]

We have 3 chickens, a buff orp roo, buff orp hen and a black orp hen. Sunday we added another hen, a little golden laced cochin, I want to say she is around 3-4 months old? She's small then my orps whom are about 4-5 months old. She's feathered but obviously still has feathers coming in. Anyways, she has what I am assuming is lice eggs under her neck, white clumps under the chin area. I didn't see a problem with just sticking her in with my chickens because they are all getting dusted for lice or mites whatever they are.....I knew there would be some sort of pecking order stuff going on, which there was....they all calmed down my night time so I let them be (they were roosting together)...now the next morning I found her in the corner unable to walk. She had her one foot knuckled over so I'm assuming there was a scuffle between her and someone else and they just over took her. So I set up a dog crate in the run where she would be safe but they could still see her. Today I took her out and she is walking again, highstepping a bit so I'm assuming her leg still hurts. But now, well yesterday, I noticed, her one nostril is clogged and sort of runny and she sneezes every now and then....what can I do for her? I put some vitamin and electrolyte powder in her water but is there anything else I can do?

Also about the mites/lice.....are they going to be a pain to get rid of? I bought poultry dust for them and have dusted once so far....which was monday. How often should I grab them and dust them? She is the only one I notice lice/mite eggs on though....


I'm so sorry if this post is all over the place!

Here's a picture of my little cochin and our roo before she got injured