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I have went through several posts on here about sulfur. Can anybody recommend what you use with a link or a picture? Thanks

Back in late February/early March I treated entire flock with Ivermectin. 2nd dose 10 days apart. Found new patches on 3 different hens. Skin is crusty and two others skin is red. I have a flock of 21. Can they return this quickly or is it that the Ivermectin did not eradicate the mites...

My flock had depluming mites. I treated with Ivermectin based on Gail Damrow book. 2nd treatment was done last Friday. Since yesterday I noticed the back of the head of several girls are missing feathers quarter size. This was not there last Friday. Is this a molt? When depluming mites are...

What type of Ivermectrin is best for depluming mites? I have elector PSP coming this Friday but others are saying that will not work. If Ivermectrin is better then which one (pour on or injectable which can be applied topically). I am concerned about using Ivermectrin as there is a 7 day egg...

My hen (Brahma) has bumblefoot. I have tried Lisa Steel's drawing salve which reduced the pink. I felt that is not enough. Her bumblefoot is very squishy not hard at all and I do not feel any kernal. She has the classic bumble in one foot and then other foot looks like an injury (punctured)...

She is acting fine. Eating and drinking as well as rooting around. At first I thought it was vent gleet as she comes out of coop every morning with pasty butt (wet fluffy butt with wet poo all over it). I treated her with Monostat 7. Its been a week and seen slow improvement. Flock do have...

This is a bully. (Yanking out feathers for no reason not even to eat them) Columbian Wyandott 14 week old. No crowing yet. Just attacking random chickens to pull feathers out. Yanked almost all the feathers out of another chicken (one of her/his flock mate that came with this batch). Thanks

I have a 14 week old bully. She is yanking feathers out of everybody's tail feathers and/or lower part of backs. Few times in the neck feathers. She is not targeting a specific bird but just randomonly yanking them out and hurting the flock mates. We isolated her in a dog crate. Currently...

I need to put a ponytail in for my Buff Laced Polish. She literally can't see and misses a lot of feeding time and misses pecking at feed. I have trimmed her crest however the ones near her eyes are quills so I can't clip those. What do you use to put crest in ponytail? I have tried...

We have 6 Light Brahmas. All supposed to be pullets. We have one that we are not sure of but she ticks all the boxes being a pullet including being a top "dog" in the group. Frist picture is the pullet. The rest is the questionable one.

Its hot here where we are at. Only two are open mouth breathing but not all the time. Several others do it off and on. They quit when temps drop. The two yarns a lot but no coughing or sneezing. Eating and drinking just fine. Should I go ahead and treat the flock for worms? Hubby fed...

We can't tell if this is a rooster or not. 8 weeks old, unsexed by McMurray Murray hatchery and sent to us as a freebie. Not mean at all and very flighty, do not want us touching it. Thank you!

This was a surprise free chick from Murray McMurrary Hatchery. So far we think its she. (freebies are unsexed). I read that they are not tame but can they be tamed? How do you encourage good behaviors? She is sweet but really pecks hard when being hand fed. She would go for it really...

We have a heat wave here in Indiana. Its been unbearable (cool down is tonight but next week another heat wave). We are currently using deep litter method (and we have water in the coop which I understand is a no no.). How do you do dry deep litter (besides removing water which we can't at...

Background: Coop size 6X8 with two roost bars (8 ft) Currently in the coop 9 pullets (6 Columbian Wyandotts with 1 of them possibly be a Silver Lace Wyandotte instead, two Plymoth Barr rocks, and 1 egyptian Fayoumis) These girls are calm and good natured. They are almost 7 weeks old...

7 weeks old-This one acts more like a rooster in its behavior and looks very different than the hens of same breed. Its a sweetheart and very beaten (bullies have been rehomed to a better place --free range farm). This one will eat last....let the flock eat before it does. Also protects the...

I have a bully and found out she is most likely protein deficient. We pulled her out as she was causing a lot of damage to the entire flock. (Peeper blinders coming tomorrow so she will be returned to the flock) We changed the feed to higher protein (we did use 18% starter but found that is...

I have found a few posts about this topic. I know its controversial and have read both sides so I am not up for debate on this. Due to allergies (severe) to corn and soy we need to have soy/corn free feed otherwise i will be the only one feeding our flock of chickens. ;(. If you use Corn and...

My oldest flock (almost 6 weeks) has 1 chick with tremors bad. I want to add Rooster Booster pouyltry cell in their water to treat the entire flock but I am also using SaveAChick electrolyte. Is this ok to use both at the same time? Thanks

I have a Buff Polish chick that was a freebie with the Brahmas. Last Thursday we noticed she got Wry Neck. We thought we were going to lose her Thursday night as she didn't fight me holding her and just laid her head on my chest with eyes closed. I gave her lots of water through a medical...