We have had a BAD case of mites :( I have dusted some of the birds but it is so much work and a pain since I have a baby and need to shower before I pick him up after etc.. I had heard about dosing with Ivomec? I have Normectin Cattle pour on. Has anyone used this before? We have some standard...
We are going through this right now.. They are in our house now after we have treated the coop areas close to the house. So they have either come here looking for chickens or come in on our clothes. I am HOPING/PRAYING they wont last here, we are all getting bitten and can feel them crawling at...
When I searched chicken mites it says they can live on people and infect homes and are very very hard to gt rid of.. I was scratching all night, think it might be freaking out a bit though.. :(
We did dust the birds and this weekend will be doing the whole coop. We had some of the birds...
EWWWWW! We had been losing frizzle chicks and had a batch of coccidiosis go through so I figured it was the tail end of that. But the last one that died a few days ago we looked at closely and there was teeny pale bugs crawling all over it, EVERYWHERE! They are not lice but mites I think. I...
Our 4 year old silkie was acting off and she has been in the hutch with the others recovering from coccidiosis so we assumed it was from that, today we noticed some blood on her back end near her vent. With a close look there were maggots and small worm (fly larvae I assume) crawling out and...
We have another one going downhill fast.. Need help! He is 4 months old, very thin right now.. Hunched up and hanging his head. He has food in front of him all the time but is still lost weight and not wanting to eat. His comb blueish and flopped over usually it is upright. We had coccidosis go...
My daughters frizzle rooster who is 1.5 years old died last night, He looked puffed up for a day or so, we had apple cidar vinegar in his water, then he went blue colored it was very odd, he also stiffened up/rigor mortis like before he even died.. I have never seen this before in our chickens...
What age do you pull your layers off of heat? We only have them on at night right now and they are 5 weeks tomorrow.. Some are banties and frizzles. They are in a calf hutch with a wooden door over the front of it..
We talked to the vet on the phone, they are not on the island where we live.. She is drinking a small amount. Her medicine is in her water. The really only symptoms she has today are the odd looking head shaking, where she draws it off to one side and shakes it. Seems to be after she eats...
Today she is sneezing less but doing this head shaking ALOT! She is eating and drinking and the poultry vet told us to put her on tetracycline in the water. When she takes a bite of food she shakes her head off to one side and closes her eyes. Could this be to clear the mucus out or could it be...
would her head shaking be from trying to clear her mucus out of her nose or would it be from a reaction to the antibiotics? The poultry vet told me to put her on tetracycline
Thanks so much.. I will stick with the one (Super Boost)that is actually a combo of the two different ones for now. It has been about 36 hours since she has been on them, still sneezing etc but not gotten much worse. The other chicken died very quickly about 10 hours after we started her...