Ivomec Pour-On?? Frontline Spray??

casportpony said:

Silly me, I skim read my own post, lol.

-Kathy

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Juise said:

Thank you, Dawg, that is one of the sites I read. And then you have things like this, too:

"Bird lice suck blood from both mammals and birds. The Suborder Mallophaga are sucking lice that feed on a bird’s feathers as well as sucking blood through the bird’s skin. These lice can live under and between feather shafts; but one species is so specialized that it lives on blood, other fluids, and pith within the shaft of the developing feather calamus.
Reference
Proctor, Noble S., and Patrick. J. Lynch. Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function

. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1993."

My head hurts. Please understand that it's not that I doubt you, specifically, it is just that there is so much conflicting information out there. The Vet at M.S.U. recommended Ivermectin and said 1 drop for bantams and 2 drops for standard size chickens.

I appreciate your help, I think what I will do is use this first to take care of any mites since, from what I understand, mites are the most dangerous for chickens, and it does treat mites, right? After that, I can go ahead with treating the lice if they still have them.

I read so much about it being horrible to breathe that I was scared to dust them... I can wear a mask, but it is much harder to put a mask on a chicken.

It just seemed difficult to not get that fine dust in the air while using it. The other thing was that most the lice I have seen are on the beards and muffs of the Ameraucanas, where you are not supposed to dust, so I was not sure how well that would take care of them?

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ChickensAreSweet said:

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/204708.htm
this source says the lice feed on the blood

Hmm the literature IS confusing.

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