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Chicken Mites?! Yikes!!

We've never had to battle any sort of chicken issues that you would normally see with Chickens like Parasites, Sour Crop, Bumble Foot, egg-related issues, Coccidiosis, Respiratory infections etc. These are rather common with Chickens, yet somehow we've evaded all of them. Imagine our surprise when a few days ago, we've discovered we had Chicken Mites! Just the word gives me the heebie jeebies! But here we were, newcomers to serious issues, and we had to address the problem. Why didn't we discover this earlier? Well, we noticed feathers missing behind their heads but thought that Polaris, our Rooster, had simply given in to spring feelings and was being too enthusiastic during mating.


After consulting with the University of YouTube, where the consensus was that Elector PSP was the best treatment choice, we set out to order the goods (Holy Moly, an 8-oz bottle is $160!). Luckily, we found a small Homestead that sells it in 9ml potions, which is all we needed. That amount makes a 1 Gallon of treatment, more than enough to treat our Chickens and the coop very thoroughly.


When the tiny bottle arrived today, Chris decided he would go tackle the flock by himself since I was still tied to my desk by my regular 9-5 job. I asked him to take a video for me. What transpired next was ... well.. it was Chris.



PS: No Chickens were harmed in the making of this video LOL




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