Silkie thread! - Page 2038

Not in the quantities that it is in Sevin.  It is only 5%, and the rest is talcum powder.  This powder was actually first designed FOR the poultry industry.  There is not going to be any other way to get rid of mites or lice without just picking them up yourself.  I had to rescue baby birds last week when the nest came down.  I put the nest back, but when I was examining the birds, they had their eyes closed and no feathers-- they were being eating alive with mites.  Thousands of them were crawling over their little pink bodies and making it look like their bodies were twitching with mites, it was disgusting.  The next thing I knew, I had mites by the hundreds crawling up my hands and onto my arms.  I ran to the house and grabbed the Sevin dust.  I poured it into my hand and lightly sprinkled the babies and the nest (and rubbed my arms with it) and a few minutes later-- no more mites, the babies are fine and alive and probably feel better than they ever did before.  You are going to come up against a lot of controversy with using any kind of chemical on yourself or an animal.  I have always been a naturalist, and I am SERIOUS about it.  I cloth diapered my babies, nursed them for a year each, delayed vaccines, and use natural methods for anything that I can. We eat naturally, and you will not find store bought cookies or chips in my home, and I stay informed.  However... there comes a time you must use your common sense as well.  And when you see an animal dying of mites and you can fix it in a matter of a couple of minutes with little to no risk to the animal.. and with no known side effects...  I prefer not to see anyone suffer.   

"The EPA's own data from their Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) shows just how safe Carbaryl (Sevin) really is. In order for Carbaryl to even affect a human, 5.48 mg/day. It has a moderate to low mammalian toxicity. It is not considered to be an oncegen (tending to cause tumors). It is a weak mutagen (tending to cause mutations) and available data indicates that it has only low teratogenic potential (causes extreme malformations or monstrosities). Carbaryl is not expected to contaminate groundwater. While it is extremely toxic to aquatic invertebrates and honeybees, it has only low toxicity to birds. An important aspect of Carbaryl is how quickly it breaks down and is redered harmless. Its insecticidal properties are lost after 3-10 days. Most animals, including humans, readily break down carbaryl and rapidly excrete 75% of it in 24 hours. Data suggests that there is low to very low toxicity to birds.1"

---https://purplemartin.org/forumarchives/archive/sevinpro.htm

This is only one website-- if you continue to google it, (both sides) you will start to have a better idea to make up your own mind.  

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Originally Posted by littlecritters 

I wonder if there is a more natural or organic approach to killing lices and mites? When I did a googled search, I found that Carbaryl is pretty potent ---> "Carbaryl is a cholinesterase inhibitor and is toxic to humans. It is classified as a likely human carcinogen by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA.)"

Not in the quantities that it is in Sevin.  It is only 5%, and the rest is talcum powder.  This powder was actually first designed FOR the poultry industry.  There is not going to be any other way to get rid of mites or lice without just picking them up yourself.  I had to rescue baby birds last week when the nest came down.  I put the nest back, but when I was examining the birds, they had their eyes closed and no feathers-- they were being eating alive with mites.  Thousands of them were crawling over their little pink bodies and making it look like their bodies were twitching with mites, it was disgusting.  The next thing I knew, I had mites by the hundreds crawling up my hands and onto my arms.  I ran to the house and grabbed the Sevin dust.  I poured it into my hand and lightly sprinkled the babies and the nest (and rubbed my arms with it) and a few minutes later-- no more mites, the babies are fine and alive and probably feel better than they ever did before.  You are going to come up against a lot of controversy with using any kind of chemical on yourself or an animal.  I have always been a naturalist, and I am SERIOUS about it.  I cloth diapered my babies, nursed them for a year each, delayed vaccines, and use natural methods for anything that I can. We eat naturally, and you will not find store bought cookies or chips in my home, and I stay informed.  However... there comes a time you must use your common sense as well.  And when you see an animal dying of mites and you can fix it in a matter of a couple of minutes with little to no risk to the animal.. and with no known side effects...  I prefer not to see anyone suffer.   

"The EPA's own data from their Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) shows just how safe Carbaryl (Sevin) really is. In order for Carbaryl to even affect a human, 5.48 mg/day. It has a moderate to low mammalian toxicity. It is not considered to be an oncegen (tending to cause tumors). It is a weak mutagen (tending to cause mutations) and available data indicates that it has only low teratogenic potential (causes extreme malformations or monstrosities). Carbaryl is not expected to contaminate groundwater. While it is extremely toxic to aquatic invertebrates and honeybees, it has only low toxicity to birds. An important aspect of Carbaryl is how quickly it breaks down and is redered harmless. Its insecticidal properties are lost after 3-10 days. Most animals, including humans, readily break down carbaryl and rapidly excrete 75% of it in 24 hours. Data suggests that there is low to very low toxicity to birds.1"

---https://purplemartin.org/forumarchives/archive/sevinpro.htm

This is only one website-- if you continue to google it, (both sides) you will start to have a better idea to make up your own mind.  

Have any of you come across a Silkie chick with hard feathering like this before? This is one of my 2 week old Blue Silkie chicks. Is there a chance they could come in right later?

It's a silkie cross, not pure silkie.  It could end up really cute, but it won;t have silkie feathers.