mites

Hi! This is a 2 week old silkie chick raised in an indoor brooder. I just took them off paper towels yesterday and noticed this as I was switching everything over. Is it mites or is it just dust and her (🤞🏻 ) feathers coming in? Also I brought them outside for the first time and noticed she...

My 3-year-old ISA brown hen, Sandy, has not been acting herself in the past months. She is quiet, even more so than normally and even while around the other chickens. She is slow to move with the flock as they rotate around the yard, freeranging. She ruffles her feathers, sits in one spot, and...

It has been a rough few months!! We've had more issues lately than in all of the time owning chickens. Our crossbeak EE has mites and DE has not been working. I went to TSC today and picked up 'Poultry Protector'. The lady suggested that I get 'Blu-Kote', which I did. I put it on her and I'm...

Woke up this morning. Did my usual routine. Come to sit at my desk in my room and notice this dust stuff everywhere. Okay here I conclude it’s just because the chicken feed bag is on top of the desk and maybe the dust got everywhere. I’m sitting here looking at my black phone screen and notice...

I spotted quite a few of these tiny bugs in my chicken coop on the wood around the nesting boxes. I've had chicken & ducks for years & I've never seen these before! Hoping to get some help to identify & how to get rid of! I'm live on the border of Mass & New Hampshire.

I just went and collected eggs and one egg had just been laid (still warm) and it had little tiny black bugs running around on it. I assume these were mites. When I picked it up they ran onto my hand and I squished the ones I could find, and I wiped the egg with a cloth to remove any other...

Should I dust my chicken for mites every other week or every week? For context, there are many wild birds where my chickens coop is. There is a tree above the coop and the wild birds can look down and come and mingle with my chickens. So I’m not sure how often I should be dusting to prevent an...

TLDR: I went for six ducks, and came home with fourteen that are in not so great shape. Hello everyone. I guess I'm posting to get some opinions and advice on some new ducks I just acquired today. Background: A semi-local gentleman posted his entire flock as needing rehomed due to his own...

Hello, The other day I was having a conversation with one of my friends who also has chickens. We both used different methods to prevent mites and parasites on our chickens. So out of curiosity im curious what everyone else uses with there flock. What do you use for parasite prevention and...

What form of permethrin has a longer lasting residual killing effect for mites and lice on chickens. The powder permethrin where you dust onto your birds or the concentrate you dilute in water and dip them into? I will have to be treating my animals more often as there are many wild birds. So...

Out of our 20 hens we had 1 that we had been calling “Bald Chicken”. Her underbelly was un feathered, as were her head, tops/shoulder part of her wings, and front of neck, and all exposed areas were beat red and raw looking. Only 2 of the other 19 hens showed some signs of baldness on heads...

Just went to trim extra feathers around one hen’s vent that were clumped up w poop- and I see many light colored crawling bugs. Small flock, six hens. What do I need to do? There’s deep bedding in the roost area for warmth through winter. I do fresh sawdust on tbe poop shelf daily. Does that...

My roosters have black spots on their combs, and now they have some white. They’ve been vaccinated. Could it be from mites? Or fungus? Some of the black spots will scratch off, but the roo did not like me messing with them. Any suggestions on doctoring, care, and prevention? Thanks, friends!

I've been reading numerous threads about having hay in or around the run, and the comments run the gamut from good to bad. Some think hay is the best, others warn against it harboring rats, mice, mites, and disease. Why I am asking is that a friend has access to free hay bales, the large round...

Hi everyone! I’d like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable about chickens at this point, but this is something I have never struggled with before. I absolutely cannot get my birds to gain weight. I thought it was their feed so I switched to higher protein and add game bird feed. After that I got...

My flock of 11 girls aren't going great. There are 9 Hylines, around 1yo, 1 black Australorp around 18 months and 1 old red chook. I treated them for red blood mites about a month ago, cleaned everything, multiple treatments with pestene powder, both the girls and their night lock up area. They...

this is on my rooster i have did some research and need some help i dont see any mites or any discharge on him this is what it looks like im not sure if it appeared like this over night or the past couple of days i dont remember seeing it yesterday but i may have just not noticed it the black...

Been in the low 30's for weeks where we live in PA. While cutting nails, I noticed some of the girl's scales lifting. From what I've read, scaly leg mites aren't usually active in freezing temps. Is this not true? Could there be another reason why their scales may be lifting? The girl in the...

Hi, is ivermectin safe for chickens to treat mites? I’m looking at the topical pour on cattle solution, a blue bottle on Amazon. I am also concerned about if it will burn the backs of their necks or if I can overdose them and they could die. Also the egg withdrawal time, it says seven days...

Hi, So the past week or several days or so I have found bites on my body which I am positive are poultry mites from my chickens. Dealt with mites before last year summer and got rid of em with permethrin powder but now they are back. The permethrin works but it is a hassle to apply to the...