Chicken Mites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Our chickens have been pecking at each other and losing feathers for a while. Then, a few weeks ago, we found a chicken dead in the chicken yard. We wondered why... ... we posted on backyard chicken and got a reply saying probably lice/mites. We couldn't find any mites in the daytime, and we would have checked the chickens for mites at night if we hadn't read that at night mites will readily bite humans. We have found what we believe to be mites in the coop during the day; which would make sense if they were chicken mites. Actually, right now we are waiting for a reply on backyard chicken to find out if there is an effective organic mite killer.


So that's what's going on at our house.





Leah

Our Chickens are Finally Laying Eggs!!

On Friday our chickens laid their first egg! We got only one but on Saturday we got two and today we got two too!! They are about half the size of an normal egg. They normally lay eggs between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. We are very exited to finally be getting something back from them. We can't wait to have all of the chickens lay an egg a day. If you check the nesting boxes about every half hour between 10 and 2, you can find the eggs still warm. We have not tried our eggs yet because we still have other eggs we need to use first.

The one on the top is not our egg.

Leah and Abby