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What is this? A few little black spots on her comb, otherwise very dry and scaly.

I am treating my flock with Ivermectin. I don’t have the pour-on so I’m putting the regular Ivermectin, three drops on the skin at the back of the neck. I can’t find information on egg withdrawal. Some people choose to not eat the eggs for 5 to 7 days but there’s nothing definitive. What is your...

I wait until the little ones are 12 weeks, to introduce. One week where they can see each other but not touch, then a supervised mingle. A small amount of peck and chase is a necessary part of the routine but don’t allow a beat down. Nothing longer than 15 minutes. Not in the coop; I let them be...

I keep Mottled Javas

Go to the livestock conservancy website. I was looking for endangered or recovering breeds and now I keep Mottled Javas.

As I was gathering up facts and information preparing to get chickens, one of the first things I caught is that scratch is candy. And it’s heat producing. You wouldn’t feed a child candy for their main meal. Scratch grains are relatively low in protein and high in energy or fiber, depending on...

Update: that clutch was not a go obviously but since then, another became broody and hatched out her chicks perfectly. It has been two weeks. She has been away from the main coop, in our barn inside a small brooder. Out in the main coop there are seven hens and a rooster. Does the rooster change...

She’s not going to like getting caught and picked up but I will check her eye closely. Thank you.

I have a hen with one eye shut. She is eating and otherwise acting normal but staying on the fringe of the flock. I want to apply an antibiotic to see if that helps. Can I use a triple antibiotic ointment, or do I need to get one specifically for the eye?

How long? figure that each laid one egg daily. The oldest eggs are 24 days old.

How old are they? Mine like the cups best, but I supplemented water in the chicken yard in case the littles needed it at first. Often I manipulated the yellow pin to fill the cup for them, and while they drank from the cup, they would bump the pin, which kept it full. They need a demonstration...

So now I see the best reason for candling eggs.

l It’s the end of her time, + 3 days. No chicks. She has been sitting like a champ but it smells like she’s sitting on rot. There are even flies, which we’ve never had. Tomorrow I’m lifting her up and ending her brooding. So sad.

So I had wanted to give her a couple of extra days, knowing that other hens laid in her nest with her in it. Today is it and no chicks. No peeping. Only a putrid smell; I think she’s on rotting eggs. Maybe some were cracked?

Follow up question: at the end of the day, when the mom and chicks are out, will she return to her own adjacent coop where they have been, or will she follow into the big coop with the others?

Only four more days to go and she will hatch her babies. I have introduced grown chickens before, to my existing flock, but as it pertains to a new mother hen and her chicks, what’s the best way to integrate them in the larger flock? She has her nest in an adjacent smaller coop & run, divided by...

I remember listening to a morning show years ago, an American Cancer Society representative said that there is an activity associated with smoking and you have to replace that activity with another that’s healthier. For example if you have a favorite chair where you sit to have a cigarette...

I would like to think they are not poultry mites. I haven’t been able to find a video of poultry mites for comparison. They move pretty fast.

I saw several of these on the door of the run, as I was letting them out the other day. Are they mites?