Thin shells or no shells

[MaureenHall]

I'll try and have a look. What do I dust them with?

[Birdie Wife]

I use this louse powder but there are several alternatives. Make you you powder them up really well, those little critters will take advantage!

[Janet Woodyatt]

janet

Hi, we had this problem with Thyme, and Barbara at Omlet was a great help.
We used verm-x for any internal parasites and dicotemous earth for any external parasites- though none were visible.
The hens had organic layers pellets and they had a small handful of mixed corn in the afternoon. They had grit with oyster shell freely available, and the run of the garden where they enjoyed the broccoli by bouncing on the netting to get to it!
Rosemary had the same diet etc. and her eggshells were fine.
It was January and not very sunny so we gave them a small dish of yogourt with a vitamin D capsule emptied into it and mixed in, twice a week, and with this the eggshells improved.

[Birdie Wife]

Hi Jane,

Sounds like good advice, sometimes all the hens need is a good tonic to help them reocver condition. BTW you'll need to change your username if you want to avoid the spammers! If you send a private message to Admin I'm sure the nice Mr. Ben will sort you out.