parasites

  1. L

    What are these & how do I get rid of them?

    So one of my silkies has been broody for a few weeks now and I’ve been keeping an eye on her (she does not get to hatch any babies this time, unfortunately). Today she got off her nest voluntarily for the first time in weeks—I picked her up and realized—HUGE parasite infestation. I haven’t...
  2. rozzzatar

    Unsure about the cause of "notches" missing from tail feathers...

    Yesterday I noticed one of my bantam hens had 3 what I would call notches missing from some of her tail feathers. At that point no other birds had anything else like it. Then this morning I noticed one of my roosters and another hen had them as well. Upon further inspection the, whole flock is...
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  3. LilRoo

    Levamisole dosage

    Hello, I am trying to figure out how to use Prohibit sheep and cow drench for a water bucket deworm method for my geese and chickens. Locally, there’s nothing. Online sources seem shady. I HAVE prohibit already mixed in the sheep concentrate form (I have dairy goats). Anyone ever do this...
  4. Relleoms

    Is it too cold for parasites?

    At what temperature do worms or Coccidia become active? We’ve had roller coaster weather, and have had a bit of snow melt the last two days but it’s going to be freezing tonight & subzero again this week. Of course the chickens poop in the melting snow, then drink from the puddles (yuck). I try...
  5. veetown707

    One Chicken in Flock Balding- Feathers Became Brittle

    I have a one year old hen (Autumn) who just went through her first molt. She has been balding on her head for quite some time. I do have a rooster and figured that was possibly from him. However, her back now is just balding without growing any feathers back.. she is growing just brittle...
  6. ChickenMamaSarah

    Disgusting worm in hen’s poop

    i just found this beneath the roosting bar in my coop. It looks like some kind of a roundworm and it’s big!....maybe three inches long. Any thoughts? I’ve never actually dewormed my chicken but I have given them Diotomaceous earth in their feed intermittently over the summer and I use apple...
  7. thiggins

    Roundworm?

    i found two of these worms on the poop board this morning. Google says this is a roundworm? How do I treat?! I have 4 week old baby chicks (they still sleep with momma chicken in their own area, no worms there). Do I treat them as well?
  8. Kalifornsky

    Sick Emu Cured

    I recently had a sick emu, Kali, but through intervention his symptoms have cleared and he's happy again. I decided to share the details for posterity, in case anyone else has a sick emu with similar symptoms and needed a point of reference. Symptoms: He's always been a very small/skinny bird...
  9. CannedMonster

    Treating Multiple Ages for Lice

    I have LF adults and teenagers as well as 12 chicks at 3-4 weeks old. I have a product called Garden & Poultry Dust with 0.25% permethrin. Is this going to be safe and effective for all? Would a spray be better?
  10. SpinningJenny

    Tiny white flecks in poop?

    What am I looking at here? Very tiny white flecks, non-moving, about the size of the commas in this text. ( , ' ) This is a "night poop" from under the roost in the coop. Fresher poops from the day showed no signs of this. I don't know who made this poop. They bed on straw right now and I...
  11. jackiestephens

    Lice

    I think my small flock has lice. I've treated, birds and coop and pen and given them a sand bath with some of that deciduous (sp?) earth stuff. Still scratching. I let them out in a large yard everyday. It's mowed grass/lawn but many wild birds congregate here. Must I treat that? How? It's huge...
  12. L

    Parasites?

    Hi. I have a newer chicken and think she should be laying by now. But she is not. This morning I saw this in her stool. What is it???? And will it effect my other girls? And how do I fix it??
  13. 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...
  14. Imthe1whoquacks

    Worms

    So I have worms. Pretty sure they’re roundworms (I’ll upload a picture if I can remember how to do that) I never knew chickens could get worms and I’ve had chickens for nearly ten years. I remember spotting them and saying “That’s a weird place for a pile of roots....wait...:eek: they’re...
  15. CSAchook

    What type of worms are these?

    Just found these two large white worms in the poop of my 7.5 week old cockerel. The poop was fresh and one worm was actively moving when I noticed it. Are they round worms? Or tape segments? Is it safe to worm such a young chicken? Any advice much appreciated!
  16. aaronhealy74

    Strange Parasites on young chicks

    So I have to problems to ask about, one of my chickens hatched 5 baby chicks last week and over the last three days they've been dying one by one. This morning there were two left that looked healthy to me but this afternoon I found them both dead in the chicken coop. On closer inspection I saw...
  17. Quacking Pigeon

    Permethrin Use on pigeons

    Hi, I’m just wondering if it’s safe to use permethrin on pigeons and how much to the amount of water to spray them with. Has anyone got any experience with it?
  18. DucksBySurprise

    Very abnormal duck eggs - No idea what it is!?!?!?

    Hi everyone! I must warn you, this is kind of a long story.... I have 2 Khaki Campbells, Lucy and Jane. (Mocha, the 3rd one was killed in February by a hawk :( ) In late November, I have a picture of the last time I know all 3 of them laid a normal egg, because I took a picture. For at least...
  19. ariella29

    Mites?? Eek!

    For the last two weeks, I've noticed that our most submissive hen, Clementine, was starting to look fluffy like she was losing her feathers on the end of her back, just in front of her tail. We got a chance to look underneath the fluff, and discovered some sore spots (see pics) and definitely a...
  20. Joeschooks

    Bald bottom and stopped laying!

    Around October my 10 month old Marans based hybrid stopped laying. Despite being a hybrid that is supposed to lay through winter, I just put this down to a reduction in daylight hours and thought no more of it. She did lay two unexpected eggs last week, meanwhile my other girls have carried on...
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