I just plant enough for all of us But all kidding aside i grow my cucumbers on a fence so if they eat anything it is the lower ones , but there is so much to forage for they rarely touch the garden.
I made cages to keep all birds away from my tomato's worked great till the rains kept coming...
That is why i can stand a phone for surfing the net, can't see a whole page just bits of it and much can be missed i do not know why people like this.. made me batty
When we get into a discussion sometimes it takes a turn as stated above , so please remember this before you jump the gun
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I wasn't impressed with it DE, i did some test with DE like putting fleas,flies and some hive beetles in it and it did not kill them, someone told my DH that sulfur sprinkled on the lawn would get rid of fleas, i have sulfur here so i ground some up put it in a jar with some fleas and a week...
I would wait and see how good the dust works, make him a dusting area with peat moss,wood ashed if ya can and a bit of clean sand, this will help him remove them naturally, you can add a bit of seven dust to the mixture also won't hurt him, most likely the pen he was kept in had no fresh dusting...
a reaction would have happened much faster and if i hasn't already gotten rid of the lice it ain't gonna, justsayen
i would go ahead and treat him with 1cc ivermec split and applied tot the tail area and in between the shoulders.
This is just terrible I didn't think you could ship birds this time of year, i am having to wait till October or later to get some i ordered because of the heat, course we ain't seen high heat all summer for the first time i can ever remember go figure.