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My 8 year-old arthritic Maran hen has a stubborn mite infection that just won't stop! I picked up "Happy Jack" flea and tick powder (active ingredient permethrin) from the vet and alternate it with Ivermectin -- 4 or 5 drops I think. Actually, I am surpassing that amount because it's doing so...

My 3 girls have a stubborn mite problem, the vet gave me happy jack's flea and tick powder (Permethrin), I dusted them three times and it didn't work. The next step up is apparently ivermectin. I can't afford to have the vet do it, so I picked up the above at my local hardware store, it's...

I put a pinless peeper on an aggressive hen about 25 days ago and it certainly has helped for feather picking but now I see I big lump on the area of her beak that's between the nostrils and black color around the area where the prongs go in (I thought this was dirt but now I don't know). The...

Hello all~ Today I picked up some pinless peepers from my local feed store. This is my first time using them and will be putting them on one offending bird named Magna. She's the 'big deal' top hen and has singled out one low-ranking bird, pulling out her head feathers creating bald spots and...

Hello~ I live in an urban neighborhood in Seattle that's unfortunately losing many of it's singe family homes to intense housing development. It's finally right around our house: town house construction just began across the street and soon demolition starts in the alley behind us. We'll...

Hello~ I know this is a pretty basic question and is probably answered somewhere on the forum but I'm not sure if I'm suppose to stop using layer feed in the winter months when the girls aren't laying. They are just a few years old now and in previous winters I just kept giving them pelletized...

Hello All~ This is my first post to Backyard Chickens. Oh dear...my salmon Faverolle looks to be getting an eye infection for what will be the third time. She went to a very good avian vet and was diagnosed with it in March 2016 and again in May 2016. She was prescribed Clavamox and each time...