Okay I guess I'll have to get those peepers. I have the most pathetic looking chickens. I have searched several for mites or any other varmits and nothing. I have girls with newly broken off feathers and some with with bare spots on their wings and backs where a thin layer of feather is being removed. I'm telling you, they look awful. I hear national is the cheapest available. I want to get some ordered right away, like this evening. Now should I put them on them all? Since I don't know who the culprits are, as I think this is happening mostly at night when they're shut up in the coop. I need to sell some of my girls too, as I've known all winter I had too many for my coop. DH talked me out of selling last fall and now they are a mess. It's down right embarrassing, for me not the chickens. I also need to re-home my partridge cochin roo. He's about a yr old and just too hard on my girls. He practically throws them to the ground trying to mount. Very rough. And he's been getting aggressive with me and my granddaughter, the little fart! Did he learn nothing when I gave the other roo to a friend for that very reason? He ended up a fine meal.
