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Has anyone ever used baby oil to dip their chickens legs for scaly leg mites? If so, was it effective?

I have a bantam flock of mostly feather footed birds. I've noticed several of them as well as my clean legged roo has lifted scales and crusty looking feet. I have elector psp and am planning on doing a 10 min soak on each bird. So my question is, I've also noticed what appears to be lice...

This is the abdomen of my buff brahma bantam hen. This scab like lesions have developed and we are unsure of the cause. I have soaked multiple times and tried to remove them but don't come off easily and I don't want to tear her skin. Whatever it is it seems to be spreading. It started below...

TSC purchase. Four weeks old. Any thoughts on breed and sex?

Grabbed these three bantams from TSC. Anyone have thoughts on breed? The first pic has clean legs, the second and third are booted.

So I ordered this baby from My Pet Chicken. It is supposed to be a female mille fleur d'uccle. I've never seen a mille this dark. Did they mix up the breed? It has feather feet, four toes, and the puffy face. So is she just a darker mille, or did I get something else?

I know it's a bantam, think it's an OEGB, but i hive no idea on color. Any one care to guess?

So I have a hen that has had a recurring sour crop. I have had x-rays done and everything looks normal, no obvious blockages, tumors etc. I have treated with monistat and nystatin. It gets better then comes roaring back. I discussed with my vet trying fluconazole and she agreed but they...

Question, does anyone have experience using oxine to disinfect the ground? Let me explain. We have bought a large screen tent that we would like to use to allow our girls an extra space to roam while supervised. We have had reports of avian flu in the state, but not in our county and want...

I have a 14 mo hen who has laid intermittent soft shell eggs over the last several months. She has had a couple bouts of coccidiosis as well as pendulous crop. Today she had an egg break inside her. I have flushed her vent several times and she has had egg yolk flush out but no shell. I'm...

So I got this little guy at TSC, his name is Ember. I am fairly sure he is a cochin bantam. I am however starting to question whether he is a frizzle or a frazzle. His feathers don't seem particularly fragile but he sure does seem to loose a lot of them. And they have way more curl than his...

I have a 28 week old ee hen, who on Saturday presented with stumbling, and lethargy. I brought her in thinking it could be heat related or vitamin deficiency as my flock had just finished a course of corid 7 days prior. I followed the corid with 2 days of poultry cell added to the water, then...

Hello all, need some advice as I feel like an utter failure. I have backyard flock of 13 hens and 2 ducks. In the last week I have lost a 20 week old EE to unknown causes, I have a year old hen with vent gleet, a year old hen with ongoing crop issues due to a unknown item in her crop that...

So this little baby is about 8 weeks old, apparently purchased at a Big R. The lady that had her decided not to keep her and ask if we would take her. She said she thinks she is an EE. I am leaning toward a red star. Any thoughts on breed or gender?

So both of these chicks are ten weeks old, purchased at TSC. They are cochin frizzle bantams. We know the white is a roo, he started crowing three weeks ago. We are unsure about the dark one. Any thoughts?

So this is a bantam chick, no feathered feet picked up at orschelins farm store. She is about two weeks old any thoughts on breed?

I have a 10 mo bantam cochin ee that has had ongoing crop issues. She has had sour crop which I treated with monistat, doughy crop that I treated with tube feeding the spice mix. She now has impacted crop. When we give her fluids the crop loosens up and she has been having small poops. The...

These bantams are less than a week old, obtained at TSC. Any thoughts on breed? They are both four toed feather footed bantams.

So this little beauty was purchased at TSC, about between 2 and 3 weeks old. Do I have a Cayuga or an Indian runner?

Can anyone tell me what breed our baby is? Purchased at TSC, about 2 weeks old.