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  1. Kuvasz

    Invisible Bugs - Help!

    I've got a weird problem happening here in southwestern Va in my coop -- invisible bugs are jumping on me in my chicken coop! My face and hands, the part of my hair, around my ankles...anywhere there is bareskin, I'm itching when I leave the coop after feeding and watering. The chickens seem...
    • Kuvasz
    • Thread
    • bug bomb bugs coop fogger invisible bugs microscopic bugs mites permethrin
    • Replies: 47
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  2. Cotton Hill Chick

    Help! What are tiny bugs the size of dust speck?

    Hello friends, I am nursing a sick chicken. She's currently in a dog crate in a spare room in the house. While giving her water/vitamins/ etc. with an eye dropper, I began to see tiny specks, REALLY tiny specks, appearing on my hand supporting her head. They are about the size of a gray dust...
  3. Scissors65

    Questions about Permethrin

    I live in Florida. Hot and humid=bugs. Can I spray Permethrin on my lawn? Will it help with no-seeums? I only let my chickens out of their run when I am at home for a few hours a day, but I am concerned if I spray the Permethrin, will it be safe for the chickens to graze on the grass and bugs...
  4. boggart

    What Bugs Did You See in Your Garden Today?

    I’m always on the lookout for curious little insects while I’m tending my flower garden or raised beds. I love seeing bugs I’ve never seen before, and I love searching online in an effort to identify them. I’d love to see your insect finds as well! Here are a few that I’ve seen in the last week...
    • boggart
    • Thread
    • beetles bugs butterflies caterpillars garden insects moths scorpions spiders wasps
    • Replies: 52
    • Forum: Gardening
  5. katiebrock

    Ants on Peas

    Good morning! I have a crop of White Acre peas planted, and they are doing well, except for the fact that they have been taken over by ants! I spray with dish soapy water and sprinkle garlic powder, which seems to help with the other bugs, but not the ants. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! I...
    • katiebrock
    • Thread
    • ants bugs cowpeas pests white acre peas
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Gardening
  6. G

    Flies/Mites?

    So I have just begun raising pigeons and it has been a year, everything was going fine, but yesterday I had a pigeon suddenly die, for a while it was staggering and looked weak so I took it in but I noticed little bugs on it, they looked like flies, and I didn't know what to do or what they...
  7. R

    Flies keep biting my chickens!

    Ok so I have three hens and starting last year in the summer there have been these little fly type bugs that land on my girls faces and just suck their blood they eventually went away for winter but now they are back again. I don't think that they are flees cause they fly around a lot and I've...
  8. ZoomuKeeper

    Brooder in hen house

    I live in Florida and we have fire ants. At times I have had ants in the one hen house going after the feed. I am hatching babies as I type and will need to put the brooder in the hen house with electric. I do not have any shelf large enough to hold the brooder so it will have to sit on the...
  9. 3speckled3

    Flying Black Bugs Biting My Rooster

    I went outside and saw my Silkie rooster hiding in the corner of his pen absolutely covered in these little black, flying bugs. I picked him up and started getting the bugs off of him. I noticed blood on his feathers and on his face and realized that they were biting him. I checked the others...
  10. KWVT

    Mites or Lice?

    Mites? Lice? Any idea what it is? I have two coops. I thought my laying hens might have mites due to some suddenly missing feathers at the base of the tail (no rooster). However, looking them over I couldn’t directly see any issues other than the missing feathers. I figured I would check the...
  11. Scotty from BI

    do dark yellow or orange yolks mean they are healthier.

    I have been raising chickens for about 8 years. I have 10 hens now about 1.5 years old. They are confined to a partially covered dirt run and very spacious coop. The run is quite large about 90 feet by about 6-8 feet with plenty of perches and ladders for them to move around in and on. I...
  12. Mites, Lice and Fleas, Dealing with External Parasites

    Mites, Lice and Fleas, Dealing with External Parasites

    Big things can come in small packages and when it comes to Lice, Mites and other creepy crawlies they are no exception to this rule! These tiny monsters can be huge problems and spell disaster to your flock, leaving them weakened and susceptible to disease and can even lead to death. There are...
    • TwoCrows
    • Article
    • 9 min read
    • bugs dust bathing external parasites fleas ivermectin pour on leg scale mites lice mites permethrin stick tight fleas
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Maintaining A Healthy Flock
  13. AccidentalChickenLady

    Lethargic chicken w/ diarrhea, lost weight, small bugs (+photos)

    Apologies in advance for the long post, but my hope is to provide as much detail as possible, and get some suggestions for at-home remedies (or those that can be administered at home) to try and save my favorite bird! My 1.5-year-old Barred Rock, Raven, has had some runnier-than-normal poops...
  14. Chickadooo

    What is the deal with FG diatomaceous earth? Studies/articles please? Safety?

    I see some people use it as a preventative, some use it only after their chickens have already gotten lice. I've read that it can be dangerous for people with asthma and not to use it around children. So whats the dealio? Should I be using this in my chickens dust baths or not? It seems like a...
  15. C

    Tiny Bugs on Feathers in Nesting Boxes!

    Hi everyone, I have had chickens for just over a year. We have 14 currently that live in a large coop with a large run and forage on our property for about 2 hours every night. Tonight my daughter said she's been noticing tiny bugs on her books when she is reading (she gathers the eggs each...
  16. Thechickentrainer1999

    Is it okay...

    Is it okay to give chickens expired oyster shells. We just bought a brand new pack of oyster shells and apparently they expired 4 years ago. I have no clue how they even managed to sit in the store that long. Also how much should I give them? They have 1 of those hanging feeders where you just...
  17. gohappy

    Mosquitoes, Gnats, and Flies

    Here in north Florida we have a lot of rain and a lot of bugs. So I wanted to share what we have done to help keep the mosquitoes, gnats, and flies out of our coop and run. Mosquitoes netting! It is a bit of a pain to roll it up to let the girls out and to collect the eggs as this mesh will rip...
    • gohappy
    • Thread
    • and flies ants bugs fire ants gnats insects mosquito netting mosquitoes rain
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  18. Lyranonamous

    small white bugs on chicken-what are they?

    Hi Everyone I posted a few days ago about our hen that has egg yolk peritonitis. She's on antibiotics and pain killers and doing very well. Last week when we gave her a bath a few tiny white/flesh colored bugs crawled off of her and onto us. They were tiny, barely visible and round. We are...
  19. F

    Bugs crawling out vent!!!

    Help! My hen has been very lathargic and strange. My local vet said they could check a fresh stool sample. I realized she isn't really pooping so I lifted up her tail feathers and there are thousands/hundreds of grayish/tan bugs crawling all over and out of her vent
  20. TherealZiggy

    Japanese beetles

    My chickens have free range in my raspberry patch and I am getting Japanese beetles. The raspberries are just a little to tall for the chickens to reach the Japanese beetles. First; is there anything besides pyretherin that is safe for chickens? If not I thought about just taking a broom and...
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