I have had many questions from myself and others since starting "Our Chicken Farm",  which I truly love and enjoy!  Some of questions that arose are as follows:

Do chickens get bugs?  They sure do, they have 2 little rascals that do invade their primary area, and live and thrive on their bodies.  Those are louses (lice) and mites.  However, to provide you with a peace of mind, all chicken lice is non-transferable to humans.  Thank goodness, because that is what I thought when I had my first experience with the lice.  The best way to control and prevent, matter of speaking, because they will always have them, its really about controlling them to not annoy the chicken.

The best medicine of attack is the poultry, or really garden dust.  If they have a favorite dusting spot, place some of the white powder in there, or in a box container in their area, and they will do it themselves.  Otherwise, pick up each chicken and turn them over so that there vent (where the egg comes out) and you will see those little critters there, and place some dust in that area to begin with but dust the chicken at least once a month to control.  Leave some in their favorite dusting area however and this will control more soundly.  The mites you will want to spray with a insecticide since they live within the coop and up on the rooster rails, and place some powder on the rooster rails, since they will crawl on them at night time and with the powder this will also help prevent it!

What do you do with all the eggs?  Great question, we started selling the eggs at the local Crooked River Ranch Saturday Market, and also outside on our front porch we sell them from my sons little fridge that we purchased for his room that he doesn't use.  So, out to the front porch it went, and we stock it with the daily takings from the chickens with their beautifully colored eggs.  We place a box right next to it, just a tupperware container, with a cut through the top of the lid, and that is where they place there monies from their purchases of the eggs!  We sell eggs from our house at 6240 Sw Mustang Rd in Crooked River Ranch.  The eggs are $3.00 per dozen and $4.50 for an 18 pack!  They are very fresh indeed, we are currently averaging approximately 6 dozen a day!  Come out for a drive and pick yourself up some farm fresh eggs!  Also, we do make deliveries to some areas in Central Oregon!  Try us out, once you do you will not go back to the market bought eggs!