I've HAD IT with all this dang CHICKEN DRAMA! 

I got rid of the mites by burning the bedding and spraying down the entire coop with Gordon's Permethrin 10 from Tractor Supply. The directions for dilution are on the bottle. I rinsed all the wood and cracks down about 30 minutes after the 1st spray, then sprayed everything down again. I rinsed it to dislodge any dirt in the cracks that could hold eggs and give cover from spray. I put fans to dry everything up, and in a few hours was able to put more hay in the nests. Over a month now and no reinfestation. I only have 8 chickens and I use a hoe to rake out the coop every morning and save the droppings in a barrel for my garden. I did not treat my chickens. They free range in my yard and take dirt baths daily. I need a Julie. You're blessed to have such a caring friend.

I raise Brahmas. They whine a LOT. They will let you know when they don’t like another chicken for whatever reason 🙄. This is what I tell mine: This Brahma Mama can’t handle your drama.

Looking forward to mite talk😊

If you have chickens,.... You have chicken drama. LOL

I have 25 hens and a tiny little kiki riki rooster named Charlie. The drama has been off the chain lately. Half are laying for their first time, half are older cranky girls. They will not allow the younger ones inside the big coop. The littles are forced to use the smaller coop. Charlie rotates night between both coops. Sounds silly, but this drama has taken over my entire life.

My drama is that our Olive Egger Rooster (who iis soooo handsome) has turned into a nightmare and attacks everyone, so I either find a place to rehome him or he needs to become soup. The End.

No drama in my life. :-). Recently moved to my once vacation house and it is so quiet and peaceful. My other home was a never-ending to-do list and I couldn't keep up. The only thing with this place, unfortunately: no chickens allowed. :-(. So I live vicariously through Dalia. :-)

Everyone could benefit from a great friend like Julie! I hope you can get rid of the mites. I had a friend that was losing chickens before she discovered the red mites. I don't really know how to find them. I will research it.

MITES are my worst nightmare. I dealt with Northern Fowl mites for almost an entire year and hundreds of dollars, zillions of products, including Elector PSP, which initially did not work. I was then told to DOUBLE the recommended dilution dosage of Elector & wet down my interior coop and a two foot perimeter around the exterior and spray my chickens also. Repeat spraying birds and misting the coop and exterior on the 7th day. HALLELUJAH!!! 🎉🎉🎉It WORKED. We haven't had mites in over a year. 💞

I'm kind of dealing with a similar situation red mites are no joke I've been fighting them for years And they keep coming back. And as far as plant go, my grass is very short but that is to be expected in the end of summer and I have a giant walnut tree it is nice for Shade but it drops hundreds of nasty looking walnuts there also a huge tripping hazard when you step on them especially on a hillside. I just finished raking up about 300 walnuts and man it looks so much better

I have a “ garden” that looks exactly like your chicken yard did. The garden opens to the ‘additional’ chicken pen. Can Julie come over? I have weeds 8’ tall! The chickens enjoy going to the jungle! ( I am using raised beds more than in the ground gardening). I just re-homed a rooster that was bullying my other rooster and things are much calmer and nicer now. Soon, it will be carrying water all winter☹️

I love that you mentioned wild lettuce!! ❤😊 On the topic of red mites giving birds Anemia, stinging nettle seeds (and leaves before the plant has flowered) are amazing for Anemia, whether Sickle Cell Anemia or not. Lamb's quarters, also called wild spinach is also great for normal Anemia but it really shines when it comes to calcium deficiencies. Also stinging nettle has all the essentials amino acids (things that build protein) and is the most protein rich wild plant growing in North America. 😊❤😊 P.S To me it didn't look like you were always in drama land!

We just finished going through a bout of broodiness, but thankfully, our girl broke it after several weeks. Now everyone can use the nesting boxes without fear or intimidation. Of course, a few days after she broke her broodiness, she went missing. We were outside with our headlamps on, calling for her, shaking the treat bag, and, nothing. The next morning, she was standing right next to the run and happily went inside. I have no idea how many more gray hairs I earned from that experience! Peace and blessings…

Oh dahlia, I am so sorry this has happened! I despise nights the summer I did find some lice in since I'm losing my eyesight that was very hard. Then me and my pup ended up with scabies mite and that has been an ongoing battle so my heart goes out to you please keep your pretty chin up.❤ Hate the bugs. Sometimes I wonder why Gid created them😊

❤I grew runner beans and lettuce under rabbit cage tops for my chickens this summer. My husband moved the cage tops and the chickens went WILD! They have free range 3 of the 7 days a week, but the ducks have made sections a mud fest. I do a chop & drop with the run when cleaning up the gardens so that the composting plant matter gets scratched into the run soil helping keep it healthier for anything that I can get to grow in there for their greens. I’ve done a mite bomb in the coup after cleaning everything out cause it gets into the cracks of the structure. 😊

Love your videos🙌so helpful ❤❤❤❤❤

I had just been out today to buy seeds for chicken run friendly plants (its spring where i live) and i am looking forward to having more plants growing in the run like you have :)

I can't wait for your detailed video on mite management. My girls are practically in the woods and that environment make mite exposure the norm. Wow that vegetation exploded!

Wow! Great job and a big thank you to Julie for helping you clean up the yard!!

We're playing a game called, "Who laid these pretty green eggs?" And... "Stop waiting in a loooong line to lay your egg in 1, yes 1 nesting box, ladies!" The other game we're playing is... "The weird places we can lay our eggs ." LOL Or "Hide-Go-Seek" but with eggs. I spend most of my day looking for eggs because I don't want to find rotten eggs. So, to combat the wild laying west, I bought wooden eggs since the ceramic eggs mysteriously broke, and my hens need direction to where they need to go lay their eggs. No mite problem, but a lot of roosters problem... However, they're sweet roosters. As long as they aren't causing problems, they're fine. Did I fail to mention we have a cross beak as well? She's doing great, but wants to stay with the flock. The flock keeps her happy and protected. She actually sleeps under our oldest rooster's wing every night. It brought me to tears the other night to see her tucked under his wing. I'm blessed to have sweet roosters.

Very interesting that the plants got so tall!

I have 3 different age groups in my flock and it's drama everyday with them. But it's my source of entertainment . And your back yard looked like FUN for the chickens. Jungle fowl that's how they live.

After breaking my fib and tib last November 30th filling a 5 gallon bucket that my Chickens and my Horse Mr Chance and all of my barn cats love this bucket. So coming Home my Husband had to feed EVERYONE and NONE of my Chickens liked the change they were STRESSED OUT. And since then I've been in and out of the HOSPITAL due to health issues. As of September 11, 2024 I'm doing better but not strength wise I'm still lacking it 😢 I'm going out and feeding EVERYONE now but I'm tired easily 😢

I'll bet your chooks went crazy monching bugs! Ours certainly do!!

We use First Saturday Lime in the whole coop. On the walls/floors, on the edges of the roost bars, and the under side of nesting boxes.

Are you positive it was a red mite and not a clover mite? They look very similar. ❤

I have a question I have a bantam chicken that is 18 weeks old and she flew over my 6 foot fence yesterday into the neighbors tree. Praise the Lord and I was able to go and get her. Should I clip her wing? Or will she not do it again? I am so afraid to clip her wing. Please tell me what I should do.❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

I'm new to owning chickens and new to finding your videos. Glad I found you.

I have rooster drama. My last mama bird hats for Eggs and they all turned out to be roosters. Right now I have seven roosters and they are tearing up my girls even though they were saddles. I don’t know what to do. Nobody seems to want a rooster except to fight them and I won’t do that. Do you have any suggestions?

Bumblefoot. 🙄😒 2 of my 5 girls. I'm sure no elaboration is necessary in this crowd. ☺️ That's my current chicken drama. 🤷‍♀️

Last Nov i switched my chicken feed. They then lost their feathers on their lower backs.I couldnt figure out why. I finally switched back to their old feed and they are finally growing feathers again JUST IN TIME for them to start molting ahhhhhh!!! I'm still waiting on the joy of chicken ownership lol Every youtube video I watch talks about another disease they can get, not yours lol others, well ok some of yours too lol so I stopped watching a lot of other videos. It stresses me out, a lot. Anyhoo, how did you keep the grass in your run? Any grass we've had they destroy. My hubby made me 3 3x8 salad bars for them but it doesn't grow up through the wire. So any suggestions would be EXTREMELY helpful 😊 Thank you!

Jungle chickens!!!!😄

My drama is no matter what I do, I have a couple of older hens that get messy bottoms. 😢 They are free range during the day and get locked in the coop every night. I believe it's bc we have flocks and flocks of Starlings that love our place. Along with 3 large, but friendly crows that we bought peanuts for so they would quit walking in the coop and getting the eggs before us... Lil thieves.. 😊 And I change/scrub the waterers 2 min typically 3 times daily. Clean the nesting boxes weekly and add herbs to it and complete clean every other week. ❤ Wendy 😊

Log in Create free account You said: Please fix the following. I think the word drama would be an understatement for what I'm going through in my chicken yard with my 14 hens and one rooster. Not only are the molting but I have no hands that are flying up in trees wanting to spend the night outside the coops, and they continuously pick on each other. Especially at night when they're going to bed it's a struggle to see who can poke each other the most. Some nights it seems like hours go by and I'm breaking up fights and putting one hand here so they won't pick on the other hand next to them or rehousing them to a different chicken coop or a different area of the chicken coop it's absolutely absurd. During the day they fight over the laying boxes and food which you think by now they know that there is plenty to go around. My poor rooster just tries to stay out of it sometimes he'll break up the fight sometimes he hides. No matter what I love them with all my heart and I wouldn't change it for the world. ChatGPT said: ChatGPT I think "drama" is an understatement for what I'm experiencing in my chicken yard with my 14 hens and one rooster. Not only are they molting, but I also have hens flying up into the trees, wanting to spend the night outside the coops. They constantly pick on each other, especially at bedtime, when it’s a struggle to see who can poke whom the most. Some nights, it feels like hours go by as I break up fights, separate hens to prevent bullying, or relocate them to different areas of the coop. It's absolutely absurd. During the day, they squabble over the laying boxes and food, despite there being plenty to go around. My poor rooster tries to stay out of it; sometimes he breaks up the fights, and other times he just hides. No matter what, I love them all with my whole heart and wouldn’t change it for the world.

Ok so first off I want to thank you for your channel and I named my Ayam Cemani hen after you:) beautiful name for a beautiful chicken! I have rooster issues.. 3 roosters per 18 hens which include the Ayam and 4 buff Orpington pullets. I love Gary but he was supposed to be a she..unfortunately throwing off my chicken math he is a year old. How can I get everyone to get along? Any tips would be appreciated!

My husband surprised me with baby ducklings . I'm not ready or set up for them . Planning on having there own in closer so they can get used to the chicken and the chicken to them . Is there something else I need to know about integrating them with my chicken ??

No drama really but I have to live vicariously through you since Manassas Park Virginia does not allow chickens! I'm just waiting until I can move somewhere that allows chickens. In the meantime I'll go hang out with my 17 exotic birds (that are allowed) :D Katie

I am having chicken drama right now. My flock has lost 3 out of 4 of my isa browns (i started with 7 birds total now down to 4) my last isa brown, Blanche, had a bad case of mites in July/early August. I got them under control with diatomaceous earth herbs and a strong home made garlic spray. Last weekend she was again listless and cowering in the corner of the run so i took her onto the porch and gave her a bath to better assess her ailment. Well, it wasn’t mites. While I was bathing her in just water to loosen to poop near her butt, she vomited black yuckiness. She was also pretty skinny and i felt nothing in her crop. I saw that she had a nice case of bumble foot on one foot and it looked like it might be starting on the other foot but had not yet gotten bad so i soaked her for a while and then saw that she looked like either she had been severely pecked under her vent or she had an ingrown feather that abscessed. She had a hole filled with poop and it was black. I got it all cleaned out got her set up in my room in the dog crate with nice soft bedding which I topped with pee pee pads so i could change them out as they got soiled and keep her feet clean and dry. This all happened last Sunday. I wake up to hear her gurgling like she is starving. Now she had a variety of stuff in her crate to eat but I didn’t give her regular bagged feed. Her comb was a bit off color so i liquified some kale and scrambled her an egg (uncooked) to which i added some electrolytes, acidifiers, and probiotics because I was thinking maybe it was sour crop. She also had two water sources one pure and one with the same mix of electrolytes etc. thinking she isn’t feeling great but she was nibbling so I thought maybe she would get enough of something good to be able to start feeling better. She was also doing this weird head wiggle periodically like she was having some kind of neck seizure. Meanwhile i was fermenting some of her feed and had the hubby get plain greek yogurt. I would try anything to help her feel better. I called the vet and she was booked and is booked for 3 weeks. They referred me to a large clinic and told me they might be able to suggest something I can do at home without seeing her. (I was in a car accident a week earlier and cant drive that far) well they wouldn’t help me so I am just doing my best. I bathed her again 2 times now because she pooped overnight and laid down in it and when I bathed her today I was the hole under her vent is getting better. Its still black (like dried blood i think) but it looks like it is healing and he bumble foot is healing up and shrinking. And she was not eating the other stuff i gave her so i tried her regular feed and she ate some. The threw a bunch all over the room but she ate some and this morning before her bath she was banfing her beak into the bowl telling me like, “hey i need more feed!” So i gave her some (even though the bowl was 1/2 filled) and she started in in it. So back to her bath. I took her out to wrap her in a towel and she vomited all over me and the floor. Then she started doing the weird head movement again so I gently held her neck and stroked downwards in case something was stuck. I am going to try to call the doctor on Monday but I just don’t know what else to do. I have also tried feeding her with a syringe but she is belligerent! I told my husband if she survives this she may need to be a house chicken. Her immune system seems very weak and I just cant see putting her out in the run if she is just going to keep getting sick. My dog recently passed so she would be the inly animal in the house. I have chicken diapers and a huge crate she can go in for sleeping. I would let her sleep with me but I am afraid she might just try to roost on my head! I’m frustrated, I’m in pain, I’m tired and I’m at my witts end. Hopefully the vet can see her and give me some good news. I dont know how much more bad news I can take. I have had 2 chickens die in the last year, one from oviduct cancer and one startled herself and then had a violent heart attack and a few months ago my vivacious 11 1/2 year old AmStaff was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and passed less than a month later. Too much loss. I am praying that Blanch lives. She is only 4 1/2. Wish me luck.

So I had five 8 week old chicks in the coop. One morning I went out to check on them and I saw my little Easter egger dead outside of the coop. There were giant paw prints near the coop that were too big to be my dog’s. Apparently a wolf had been roaming my property since my seven old chickens died. And still is!

I find you because I need it advice, and I find your videos are awesome and you’re pretty funny beautiful lady…so i subscribed…🤣 at the moment ( with my husband) looking after my daughter farm…2 bunnies, 2 dogs and 8 chickens and a rooster…all pets with names! Our homework while my daughter and her husband overseas to renovate the chicken coop! We took off old mesh roof, make all post stronger and installed a new roof! Also put lots of tree branches to hang out on, and a swing…🤦‍♀️…and we made a great dust bath too! All ok…BUT about a week ago i noticed one of a chicken is under a weather…not happy… I called a Vet…they told me she must be egg bound…so I bath her, separate her so I can be sure she drop and egg…nothing…3 days later we ended up at the Vet…no she didn’t egg bound, however she can’t digest a food…so she is get medication and a first day she need it to be separated, because she is not allowed to eat, only drink…we’re at day 5, she is started to eat from my hand, but still sleeping a lot…i never had a chicken in my life!🤦‍♀️ I didn’t told my daughter, she can’t help from where ever she is, also I don’t want her to be worry…so, yeah…I’m dealing with it, but is just a bit much here and there…❤

I have a flock of twelve. We put seven in the run during the day. And the other five stay in the coop, and come inside our house at night. We are overcrowded right now so I am worried about fighting. I have a 6x8ft coop with a 8x12ft run. They had a larger coop and run. But it was older shed that a weasel got into. So we have to rush to get something built with the money we had. I know I should downsize. But it is so difficult because I love them. And I would never rehome my other pets. So I can’t imagine doing it to my chickies.

Always enjoy your videos. An observation. My flock had scaly leg mites for which I used a squeeze dropper to put a couple of drops per foot of ivermectin cattle pour-on on each foot of every chicken. After retreating the flock a week later, I noticed no more roost mites as well. My flock free ranges over a concrete floor with 2x2 wood bars on wire cages to roost on. Litter and nest box bedding is wood chips and sand dusted with wood ashes. Edited to add! Wait to use ivermectin until after molting! Especially with frizzles their wing feathers grow back deformed and they cannot fly up away from predators!

Yikes, I thought I had stress. I have alot of chickens and probably about 10 Roosters. I also have Peking ducks. But, I have 3 blind ones, 1 with Prolapse issues. 1 blind rooster and 1 rooster who is paralyzed from the neck due to a fight. The special needs ones take alot of time. My paralyzed I have to sit with him for 1 hr and feed him everyday. So, my special needs babies are my stress. However, God doesn't give me anything I can't handle. I love them just as much and take care of them even more.❤

Red Mites are the WORST!!! 😡 I have dealt with them since we moved to our property 3ish years ago. I put DE on the roost bars, on the walls, and on the ropes that hold up the roost bars. This is the ONLY thing that I find that works in my area of the PNW.

How do you get hens to be nice to bantams? We now have two flocks. Flock1 has 8 hens and a bantam roo (who is a good roo for the big girls). Then I have flock2 with 12 bantams and two roosters (only one roo stays with the girls). My newest hatched roo is about 6 months old and he has his own place outside during the day and inside at night. He and I watch TV every night with him on my lap. Yeah spoiled. We let both flocks out to free range the yard for abt 1.5 hrs right before dark every day, when we can be out there with them. We have too many predators to let them free range all day. The big hens scare the bantams and they just run away from them. I am too nervous the big hens will hurt or kill my bantam hens if they are all together. Any advice? or are two flocks better than 1??? 😌💗😁

I have red mites right now. I clean the coop and it lowers the numbers, but they come back.This year it has been worse than usual. I live in Eastern North Carolina, which doesn't help. I can't wait for your red mite video to help me with my chicken drama!

Oue Salmon Faveroles are nervous-nelly-fuss-budgets!!

I’m new to backyard chickens and one of my six month old hens appears to have been attacked yesterday. She won’t put any weight on her left leg although she looks ok otherwise. I’m not sure if it’s broken, dislocated, or something else and I can’t find any vets in my area who see chickens. I’m kinda at a loss. Aside from isolating her, can anything else be done?

I’m new to owning chickens and my drama is that I recently lost one of my girls to mareks , I managed to save one . I used magnesium choloride capsules and she up and walking.

Please who have chickens understand chicken drama is just another day for us the one's that don't have chickens or just a couple need to get experience with chickens also if you didn't talk about drama new people wouldn't click on the video seems like that's what everyone thrives on nowadays have a wonderful day chicken queen 😊😊😊

I live in Michigan. I noticed you have a beautiful net overhead. How do you handle this when there is a snow storm. Mine collapse and I get so upset. Any help would be great. Thanks Jean

I got Americana chicks this year because they rarely get broody and I’m not looking to hatch out new chicks. I’ve had chickens for awhile with no broody chickens. This year my new girl has gone broody like she is on a mission to make up for the years no one has been broody for me. 😂

We have two chickens that keep flying out of the run, so we are going to get a net for the top. I love your large run ,our is small so I think that is why they get out. Also I changed their food to a mixture of grains and they are not eating it good, dont know what I will do because I have many large bags of all of the grains. :(

I have month old chicks in my bedroom, it seems like it is taking forever to get feathers. And in two weeks I'll have a second batch hatching. But it's cold here at night now so they have to sleep inside.

Love your new intro! Gives it a nice little buffer before you start talking and you get to show off your lovely chooks being cute

I mean, if you want to put the rooster in a battery cage

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Best.

Oh, it's jungle-drama now.....

i thought at first you did that on purpose...they will be so happy, i loved it...and that wild lettuce...i leave it till the finches go south.

I don't have drama yet but I'll be adding guinea keets soon so I imagine that whole thing will be quite dramatic.

my flock started molting. so now the entire flock has been mooning the entire neighborhood whenever they're out of their run 😂😂

chickens will molt. that was one of the things we always had problems with. however, we used to give our chickens some raw ground meat. that kept them from pecking each other and helped with the molting as well.

Chicken and duck fertilizer leads to explosive growth. That’s quite a beautiful jungle for your birds, really. I’m glad you left part of it for them to enjoy.

Drama? What drama? I have no chicken drama. 🤦‍♀️😂😂😂😂😂😂 🎭🎭🎭

Oh goodness....bumblefoot, soft shell eggs and depluming mites!!

Wow!!! It looks awesome!

Butch girls to the rescue!

Okay, well you asked for it. So I raise some pretty expensive birds, American Bresse. And the Pinnacle of my achievement and of my hard work over the last couple of years has been my rooster Cosmo. Genetically, he is absolutely fantastic. A lot of hopes and dreams are tied up in that bird. And then he got sick Cosmo has MG. Specifically, that is myoplasmosis gallasepticum. Essentially it's a very common but very nasty cold. It's a respiratory thing and they will snot up terrible. Lethargy. Standing in one place with their head hung down. The skin around their eyes and on their faces will puff up and look swollen. They just look miserable and they are. They will toss their head back and forth and sneeze and everything trying to get the snot out of their respiratory systems. If they can manage to maintain long enough it will clear itself out because there is no cure. If they can't they die. I figured out pretty quickly what was going on with him and I separated him. Made him a nice warm dry hospital room. Then I went out and picked him some broadleaf plantain and chopped it up diced it up real fine and cooked it and scrambled Guinea eggs. After about a week he was really looking like he had pulled through and he was anxious to get back to his hens so I let him go back. That was my first mistake. Long story short it's spreading like wildfire throughout my Homestead. The only things that appear to be immune are my Muscovy as far as birds go. I have lost many birds. I have not yet lost Cosmo but he was so sick that I panicked and started throwing every egg I could find in the incubator. I hatched out a beautiful brooder of 15 of them. And right now just yesterday I have been forced to move them into an outside brooder that some of the sick babies were in earlier. I'm hoping that I actually put enough antibacterial and germ this and germ that in there that nothing can survive. Hell that water trough has spectracide, Listerine antibacterial spray antifungal stuff oh Lord let me think diatomaceous earth lol...... I made sure there was nothing going to live in there before I added the bedding and set it up for them. So far so good but I'm really nervous and now I have three sneezing turkeys...

Leaf blower n Weed wicker

Nooice! 😎 STOC

I am at the height of drama with my girls all of a sudden. My dark Brahma will not eat and not sure why. I’m sad about this. Not sure how to help her and fear she will die in the coming days bc of lack of food…no fun. 😢

Lots of love Dahlia! Glad you are handling the mini dramas well.

I have two separate chicken groups...one has 25 hens and 1 rooster...the other has 10 hens and 1 rooster....my question is do I really need roosters? Alot of the hens in group 1 are featherless on their backs and neck areas due to the constant rooster mountings..dont have brooding chickens..fyi

I have 28 chickens and 5 have bubble feet that’s my annoying drama of the month, soo fed up with the maintaining it all clear and clean 😫

I feel like chickens are always causing their own drama. But I recently lost 2 hens and not sure one in August from sour crop and one this past weekend from what I thought was vent fleet but still not sure what it was. I had her quarantined and it might have been too late for her. The rest of the flock is fine and we are slowly getting back into supervised free ranging. That was on hold due to hawk attacks that killed two hens. I’m sure the free ranging will bring some drama

How big is your Homestead? Do you have any tips? What about raising a rooster? How big should the cage be? Can it be raised and how to deal with poop? 0:43

YEA YOUR CHICKENS LIKEJUNGLE MY CHICKENS LIKE JUNGLE ❤❤🥚🥚🥚