Recent content by Debbie292d

If you throw it around, sure, but we've used it for over 20 years in our two macaw parrot cages to keep fruit flies and pantry moths at bay. Their lungs and airways are way more delicate than a chickens. The problems come when people apply it incorrectly.

I use diatomaceous earth (food grade DE) monthly in our coop for prevention, but if a breakout of mites, it's going to take weeks for it to kill those, so you'd need something faster and stronger. I do not know your product, but Permethrin powder is what most use and recommend for treating both...

Sorry no one replied, but maybe because you were heading to the vet the next day. That's the best thing usually so we don't like to advise too much when someone actually has one. My first instinct on any eye problems with any pet is a saline rinse. That sometimes clears problems or at least...

Hiya! Those smelly poops called cecal poop and boy do those reek! All chicks/chickens actually have a cecal poop every third or fourth poop, so they are totally normal. As for the clicking noise, as long as it's not interfering with her while she's awake, and she can eat, drink, and be merry...

Thank you again! As soon as he gets home, I'm telling him your idea. He will love it as these vine plants (cucumbers, squash, pumpkins) have been such a headache to us and this gets rid of 1/3 of the problem!

Hiya, and welcome to BYC!! :frow Assuming by waterfowl, you may mean ducks, but just in case it's something else, we have forums for them too: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/#other-backyard-poultry.66

I love it! We need to try this! By support slings, like I'm guessing onion sacks tied with ropes on each side, something like that would work? We have several cattle panels all cut for tomato cages but I think I can get hubby to utilize a few I don't use anymore for this idea...

Hi! The dried blood on her neck feathers must be something else as that looks like possible eye infection or worse, but that wouldn't cause bleeding necessarily. I would keep her quarantined from the other chickens until you know what she has. You could rinse the eye out with a saline...

Almost all paints rated for outdoor work for metal, some better than others but I'd make sure it was oil-based or oil-based latex it might be called. We sprayed one side of ours with Rust-Oleum.

We had bees for a few years and after draining the honey, we'd give our chickens parts of the comb, just broke off hunks and tossed it out in the yard. I'd leave the rest in a dish in the kitchen and every few days, do that again until it was gone. I think it's fine within reason. It's sugar...

Cute chick! Lovely names you have for them!! Welcome to BYC!! :frow We're glad you're here!

Are the plants ripe with beans on them or just the plants? If they have beans on them, the chickens really shouldn't have them unless you boil, ferment, or sprout them. They can get crop and digestive issues and some contain toxins otherwise.

Awe, so cute! As long as she's breathing okay, and can eat/drink okay, I think I'd just leave it be and see what it looks like a week or two from now. I would give them all vitamin water, like Poultry Cell a couple times a week. She might need extra vitamins to help her body trying to mend...

Vitamin E as you might have found, just has to go whole in their mouth as breaking it open into their feed or scrambled eggs is gross and they won't eat it. I administer it with help from hubby but I know most do it by themselves. I sit the hen on my lap and hold her head with my left hand...

That'd be like our grain powder (mostly ground flax) that we add to smoothies. I use it when I make banana bread and meatloaf too, as could you!