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  1. Djripke78

    Rooster isn’t responding to treatments

    We have a 7 year old giant white Cochin rooster named Hank. For about 12 months we have been struggling with him over-grooming and pulling out his feathers. A few of the hens had started pecking on him, especially on his feet and the tops of his wings. We initially thought the damage to the...
  2. SummerTheAnimalGirl

    Feeding only in evening

    Hello everyone! I have 12 Free ranging Welsummer pullets. They are about 7 weeks old, and have been free ranging for about a week and a half. These are my first set of chickens. My plan is to let them forage during the day, and then in the evenin- around 6- I will feed them their store bought...
  3. K

    Lice? Mites? What are these!

    On several occasions now I’ve spotted a bug of some sort scampering between my hen’s feathers! It’s larger than what I would expect any kind of mite to be - about the length of a fingernail. It was dark coloured. And it was FAST. Zoomed away when I tried to flick it off. I’ve not seen any on my...
  4. J

    Rooster with red skin all around vent and little bugs!?

    I was sitting in the coop watching my chickens and my rooster was doing his little dance for a hen when I noticed his butt looked red. I caught him and quickly saw that his skin looked red and irritate all around his vent, I also saw some kind of white build up around some of the smaller...
  5. khloee

    Best backyard bug killer that won’t harm my chickens

    We live in Missouri and the mosquitoes and gnats have been really bad this year. We want to spray our lawn to get rid of really those two pests. Since our chickens and geese eat the grass everyday we want to find a pesticide that won’t harm or kill my birds. What is the best product we should use?
    • khloee
    • Thread
    • bugs bugs all over gnats herbicide mosquito pesticide products
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  6. L

    What are these bugs? (pictures)

    I found these bugs 2 days ago in my coop. Have no idea what they are, if they are harmful, or how to get rid of them. Looks like they have 6 legs, antae, they fly, are a brownish color with a slight red tint, and about the size of a poppy seed. I've checked the flock, but there are no signs of...
  7. eknielsen

    Help me identify this tiny bug!

    Apologies in advance to anyone who gets itchy from reading this, I got itchy writing it! I’ve recently noticed tiny bugs that make their way onto me every time I go out to the coop, and I can’t figure out that they are. They’re fast but I haven’t seen them jump. They’re so small that I can’t...
  8. Nica44

    Red mites?

    Hello I have problem. Never have problem with any kind of parasites in my chickens flock, until now :( Few days ago I've noticed tiny, and I mean TINY bugs on my young rooster, happily he is separated from the rest of the flock (because he is aggressive) but he was separated in the "summer"...
  9. SaltyOldDog

    Newbie questions about the first few weeks of a chick

    I'm going to ask a series of questions in this post having to do with the first bunch of weeks of raising chicks. These questions come up due to conflicting information from a variety of sources of my research and talking with the "Chicken Expert" at Tractor Supply (aka TSCE) . As I stated in...
  10. Microwave Girl

    Best Run Mulch for Attracting Bugs?

    What kind of mulch/groundcover do you all use in your run? My run is bare earth, (no plants, no bugs) and the girls are very bored. Unfortunately, I can't put in a compost pile, because of rodent problems. I'm trying to find a mulching material to put down that attracts bugs for them to eat, but...
  11. Ruthster55

    The Ivermectin Thread!

    In this thread, we will discuss the use of ivermectin both in treatment of our chickens for things like mites, and its possible use against COVID. I don’t want to take any position on ivermectin except as an excellent anti parasitic medication for cattle, pigs, chickens, and more. One of the...
    • Ruthster55
    • Thread
    • anti parasitic bugs coronavirus ivermectin mites chickens pests
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Random Ramblings
  12. Manahil Asad

    Mites?!

    Hi there everyone! I'm a first time chicken owner and new to BYC. I have two lovely silkie hens, who are 4 months old. They live in a room inside my house but play outside each and every morning until dusk! I recently found out that there were mites crawling around them. (Yea, disguising, I know...
  13. CapricornFarm

    I hate bugs!

    I know they are part of the food chain, but I just want them to stay far away from me. In Florida it was the giant flying cockroaches and huge spiders. If you have poultry, then you likely know about mites and lice. Mosquitoes and ticks are the ones that torment us most in VA. Tell me which...
  14. CCtheflockboss

    Chicks ate wasps that were poisoned — will my chicks be ok?

    My husband spray some strong, nasty wasp colonies that would not leave the front door to our house. The poison did its work to kill the wasps, but they dropped down to ground and my 4 week old chicks started nibbling them up so quick The next day! I tried to get them away from the dead wasps...
  15. Eltopo

    Bug attack!

    This monday I found 8 new little chicks roaming through the grass, and most of them looked healthy enough. Even if one of them looked a little weak, the next day all of them were really lively. Today we're down to 4, and when I went to remove the little bodies I noticed they were crawling with...
  16. HemmingHill

    What are these tiny bugs? (NOT chicken mites)

    Our coop has been empty for 9 months and was treated when we lost our chickens last year. We had mites so we know what they look like (these are not what our chickens last had last year). We are making some improvements to the coop and have noticed these extremely tiny black and translucent bugs...
  17. 1chip2chicks3cheeks

    Providing vegetation and bugs for a blind rooster

    Hello everyone! I've been lurking around BYC for a bit now but just decided to join to ask my own question! We rescued a fighting rooster (Joe!) who was blind in one eye. He was the very beginning of our chicken adventure! We never planned on having chickens, but took him in because it was the...
  18. luckyduck956

    Ducklings and Bugs

    Are there any types of bugs Ducks shouldn’t eat? Took my ducklings outside today and there were little bugs in their water. They were obviously so happy with their treat. But then... a huge spider, I mean, HUGE, spider started crawling on one of my ducklings. The other duckling came to her...
  19. T

    What are these bugs??

    Okay I’ve looked and looked and cannot seem to find someplace that identifies these bugs. They don’t look like regular chicken mites. I first saw them on a couple of eggs. I’ve checked my chickens recently and can’t find any sign of mites or harm from mites. They are teeny tiny. My hens just...
  20. ShrekDawg

    Little bugs everywhere!!!

    What are these little tiny bugs everywhere!? They appeared recently, at first only a few, and in no time at all they are now everywhere!!! And I do mean everywhere!! The storage sheds outside, food and water buckets, the outside of the coop, some bedding that had spilled out, etc.! :barnie What...
    • ShrekDawg
    • Thread
    • black bugs bug bugs bugs all over bugs on coop fleas mites tiny black bugs tiny bugs like specks
    • Replies: 115
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
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