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    Mites and Lice Question

    Hey all! I have had backyard chickens for many years and maybe I'm lucky it's taken this long- but I have my first case of poultry lice... I would like to get rid of them asap and will be doing a big spring clean out in the next few days. My budget cannot really handle $200 Elector PSP at the...
  2. Aspen25

    Treating persistent mites organically

    Hi all, I have mites galore and I don't know what to do with them. They are literally crawling everywhere. I live on an organic farm so would need something natural to treat them with. Any suggestions? I did a huge clean out of the coop pressure sprayed it all down and then sprayed roosts...
    • Aspen25
    • Thread
    • mite infestation mite prevention mite treatment mites organic chickens
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  3. Chicken_Trainer2007

    Bugs on my three broody hens and eggs

    I have three hens with bugs on them I don’t know if it’s mites or not but I gave them the worms and mites meds (to my whole flock)I’d like to know if these are mites and if the meds kill or just prevents the bugs. And will the bugs effect the eggs in a negative way when hatching? : here’s the...
  4. C

    Exzolt and cydectin treatments. Treating mites and lice/worms

    Can you treat chickens with Exzolt and cydectin at the same time? My chickens have just had their second/last dose of Exzolt in their water. Can I topically treat with cydectin now aswell or is it best to wait?
    • Chicnz
    • Thread
    • advice cydectin exzolt lice medical advice mites treatment advice treatment schedule
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  5. AGeese

    Flock Woes

    I've had this experience before with two other Buckeyes so I'm fearing the worst. I found Speckles this morning sitting out on the floor of my garage that has flake down as if she was planning to lay. Picked her up and put her in a nesting box. She didn't fuss. I checked her vent she was...
  6. saku ziemniaku

    Mites…?

    Hi, so I’m fairly new to chicken-keeping and I got a silkie a few days ago and recently discovered she has some reddish microscopic dot-like bug things..? Any idea what could those be and if they’re dangerous? Also how to possibly get rid of them? Thanks for all the help!
  7. chickenmomma1108

    hen with labored breathing, waddling, worms and mites?!

    Have a Calico Princess hen ("Kali" - 2 years old) who gets around the chicken run during the day, but I have noticed her belly is very big and low & she seems to struggle with breathing. I hadn't realized she was missing so many feathers on her bottom and her belly underneath until today. Had...
  8. S

    Please help – months-long feather issues that I just can’t solve.

    I have 3 hens roughly 10 months old (1 Lavender Orpington, 1 Easter Egger, 1 ISA Brown.) All are laying, eating, drinking, and pooping consistently and normally and show no other signs of disease or distress. At first I thought it was feather picking on the back of the smallest hen (the Easter...
  9. KinTiN

    Indoor Mite Treatment

    I have a bit of a unique situation. We have two roosters recovering from injuries in our home. Last night my husband discovered that one rooster is infested with mites. This is a new development, as the roosters have been in the house for well over a month. Another thing to note is that we have...
  10. BettyDavis

    Newbie - Pecking or Vent Gleet or Mites?

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    Mites?

    This is Esther. Over the weekend I noticed her butt was bare and she had some bleeding. I cleaned her up and sprayed with Vetericyn. Today I noticed neck feathers that were broken or missing and I did see her picking at her feathers as well. She is eating and scratching normally but she...
  12. The Northern Fowl Mite

    The Northern Fowl Mite

    Recently, my chickens have gotten a case of northern fowl mites. It is only 4 of them (they are in a separate coop). I was so devastated and shocked that they got them. They are all good now, but I wanted to share some information about the mite. So, let’s look at the mite side… Mites are tiny...
    • Nora
    • Article
    • 4 min read
    • microscope mite mite infestation mites northern fowl northern fowl mite
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Predators & Pests
  13. Eliminating Lice (or Mites) on Chickens Using Permethrin

    Eliminating Lice (or Mites) on Chickens Using Permethrin

    Introduction So, your birds are losing feathers and looking scraggly but aren’t molting. Or maybe you actually saw the pests crawling on them. Either way you’ve come to the right place. My birds had lice a few months ago and I have made this article with all the information I collected during...
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    What is this? White specs. Lice? Mites? Molting?

    Our silkie rooster has been looking pretty sad lately, feather loss and broken feathers. He has lost feathers right above his tail feathers as well as some near his wings. I assumed that he was just molting until it dawned on me today that maybe it could be lice. What do you guys think? I didn’t...
  15. A

    Mites Infection in the Winter | Elector PSP Application

    Hi everyone! My silkies have mites and I want to get these off ASAP. I have elector PSP and I want to spray each of them down and their coop(and clean the coop), but I’m worried to stress them out or to do this application in the cold. I’d try to take them inside to my basement to try to let...
  16. CluckkyKrista

    Help - molt or mites?

    Hello all you lovely chicken-loving peeps, I’m hoping for some help caring for some of my girls. I noticed feather loss on two of them several weeks ago (mostly Matilda our 1yr old copper Maran and Ella our grey Easter Egger). I thought it might be a first molt initially (it’s spring here in Aus...
  17. S

    Pale comb & face. Losing feathers.

    Not an emergency but wondering what this could be. I have buff orphington chickens that are about 9 months old. They were all very healthy and fluffy looking. But Over the last week I have noticed the smaller one getting very pale on her face and comb and losing feathers/ her fluff. She stands...
  18. Optimus Pollo

    Feather mites or something worse?

    I have a large flock 33 hens and 2 roosters. Some of them started having a strange loss of feathers as seen in the pictures. It usually starts on their back near the tail and very slowly (weeks-months) gets worse with the loss traveling up the back. Some birds also had feather loss on top of the...
  19. RossAcres

    He needs to eat...

    Just another thread about my sick bantam Wyandotte rooster. How can I get some feed in my bird? He has been drinking A LOT of water. Like, he literally stands in front of the water cup and slowly drinks it until it's all gone. His breast feathers stay wet because of all the water he's...
  20. T

    WTF are these bugs?!

    We are seeing these little bugs all over the outside of the coop and run, particularly on anything made of metal and plastic— like the solar lights on the outside of the coop, nest box latches, buckets, etc….we have not found any inside the coop except for on the door hardware, and nothing on...
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