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You may treat crawl spaces that are not accessible to chickens with whatever insecticide you've been using, but you must not use it on the outside portion of your foundation as it will be toxic to chickens. Chickens themselves are an all purpose insecticide, do not forget. They will happily eat...

You learned a lesson about light reflection and the color of light. Our eyes see best when the object reflects lots of light. Red swallows up more light that it reflects, so it's very difficult to see the object, let alone detail. The problem with amateur photography is that most people aren't...

It's a miniature quail. I don't know how I missed that little detail. Of course you would need to scale the dosage down for a tiny creature like this. Perhaps run a few tablets through a coffee grinder and feed the crumbles. Dosage isn't a precise issue. Getting adequate calcium into the bird is...

Be aware, if you aren't already, your hen is in crisis and could die. The longer this goes on, the harder it will be to resolve. A few things done now could make a difference. I would give calcium citrate instead of Tums as it is a form of calcium that is easy to absorb so it works very...

Think of electrolytes as a stabilizing "med". We use electrolytes to treat shock and stress and dehydration. Baby chicks almost always suffer some degree of shipping stress so we give them electrolytes in the first few days after bringing them home. Any time any chicken behaves sickly, we use...

Watery poop is not a concern unless the chick is also behaving lethargically. Poop can vary in water content according to how much water is consumed. Electrolytes are not recommended for long periods as the salts can build up and create electrolyte imbalance. They also cause chicks to drink...

I've had good luck accommodating different ages and temperaments on the same perch by installing partitions.

The vet treated for egg binding in a thorough manner. The calcium combined with oxytocin is practically guaranteed to stimulate strong contractions. If that didn't produce an egg, then it's likely something else going on. And given how long this has been going on, it's probably not an egg.

Lots of questions. First, nothing to worry about until the new ones are on the threshold of hormones. Hormones, usually around five or six months, do effect behavior changes. But you won't know how they will all relate until the time comes. It isn't always predictable and breed and genes are...

Miconazole doesn't require precise dosing. For standard chickens I usually use half and inch to an inch of cream twice a day for seven days. So your pea size dose is in the ball park. I prefer to use a bit more to avoid the dose not being enough. No harm.

It's normal chick play. Not to say that in their exuberance injuries might not occur. Doctor the boo-boos as you would with rambunctious toddlers. Vetericyn spray is a quick and easy wound treatment. Just keep an eye out for ganging up on one chick or a single chick that might be getting most...

How much calcium and what kind? It should be around 350mg. Calcium citrate works quickest. That was a good move as the hen shows signs of possible egg binding. It would benefit the hen to be installed in a pet crate with absorbent towels and water to drink, placed in a dim, quiet place to lower...

Yes, that dust is safe for chickens. However, you've just brought up an important point, and that is to always read the ingredients of any insecticide that you are thinking of using on or around chickens. Some may include petroleum distillates in addition to permethrin, and that would make it...

You just did a home lab experiment and saw the difference between DE and permethrin. While both are dusty powders, they are very different. DE is the powdered remains of the skeletons of ancient ocean creatures. If you were to examine it under a magnifying lens, you would see lots of very sharp...

Do you remember your childhood friends changing when everyone started experiencing changes to your bodies? The boys became virtual aliens and even some of the girls behaved in ways that were a far cry from how they used to be. Hormones change things. Same with chickens. They may have been...

If the chicks breathed in the DE, you would know right away.

Are you using the permethrin dusting powder? Someone mentioned DE. DE does not kill lice and mites. And DE would be especially hazardous for baby chicks as it's extremely caustic to such delicate respiratory systems. The very thing in DE, calcified remains of ancient sea creatures, that...

The criteria for effective broody breaking is that the broody be deprived of anything she can use as a nest. Even solid dirt and grass can provide a reflective surface that prevents her from shedding her broody body heat which in turn perpetuates her broody hormones. For this reason, an...

Serial broodies can be a blessing or a curse. I had one once, and I could predict the exact day she would go broody, her cycle was so predictable. It made it easy to start saving eggs for her to incubate because I knew when she would begin to sit the nest. The sound your hen is making is the...