big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
My birds all have DE in their favorite dusting spaces and get a regular amount of cayenne pepper, yogurt and raw pumpkin seeds.
Recently my pre teen (and very much into exploring sex for the first time) chicks are all of a sudden pecking at themselves...particularly their upper thighs and under their wings. I examined them for any kind of mite, upped their calcium and protein intake and dusted them with DE. They still seem itchy. Then I noticed pin feathers in these itchy areas...could this be the root of the problem?
My 3 adult hens are NOT itchy at all, and they all share the same run and coop.
I searched on BYC but couldn't come up with any results.
Typos!
Recently my pre teen (and very much into exploring sex for the first time) chicks are all of a sudden pecking at themselves...particularly their upper thighs and under their wings. I examined them for any kind of mite, upped their calcium and protein intake and dusted them with DE. They still seem itchy. Then I noticed pin feathers in these itchy areas...could this be the root of the problem?
My 3 adult hens are NOT itchy at all, and they all share the same run and coop.
I searched on BYC but couldn't come up with any results.
Typos!