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    De-Pluming Mites VERY effective Treatment I stumbled across!!!

    I follow up with the Ivermectin pour on it kills fleas lice mites deworms
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    De-Pluming Mites VERY effective Treatment I stumbled across!!!

    Hi you can buy Ivermectrin for cattle "pour on" at local Tractor Supply, Atwoods or your local Co-op ALSO I wash them in a kitchen sink filled about 1/2 to 3/4 depending the size of the birds WARNING: They all seem to" go to sleep" so keep their head up!!! I make the water fairly warm too...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Merle passed away about 10 days after we remove half of this! Sometimes I think we should just let nature take it course...... :(
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    De-Pluming Mites VERY effective Treatment I stumbled across!!!

    I bathe them and then I always clean coops and after about 2 weeks I go ahead and use Ivermec cattle pour on drops under each wing and on the back of their neck and sometimes I do the top nub of the tail ( not the vent ) The shampoo seems to give Instant relief and hair starts growing back...
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    De-Pluming Mites VERY effective Treatment I stumbled across!!!

    So I have been battling The Depluming Mite recently. I have silkies so these are hard to detect on them unless you do a daily head check. In the summer I bought a Rooster and added him to the coop. After a couple months he got this Nasty looking crusty stuff on his head & skin around his eyes...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Iodine treatment seems to be shrinking this a little more each day!!! I wish I would have done this earlier, but I was afraid of staining it and making it look like blood and causing the other chickens to peck him. I been putting Iodine on " SOAKING it " with a cosmetic brush dipped in the...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    It went fairly well we were able to cut half of it off. Pour straight Iodine all over it a soaked it real good. next morning some swelling had gone down and I think it began shrinking. I will just keep putting that on it for now. He eats good and seems to have no other problems so maybe the...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    SO... I ended up soaking him and continually pouring water on this for an Hour, Again,,, to No Avail!!! Tried cutting off the tip It just wont /cannot be cut. I am waiting for my husband to get home and we are going to attempt cutting it with Pruning shears? We have tried Box Knife Blade before...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    PHOTO #1 His Ear Hole is Clean & Clear ( DO not think it is ear infection ) PHOTO # 2 I discovered another mass under his chin about nickel sized UGH! PHOTO # 3 Looking from behind his head at bath/soaking time today This thing is HUGE Poor baby! PHOTO # 4 NOTICE the yellow follicle...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    We tried cutting into the top of it but because it is Sooo Hard it pulls it at the base and caused him to scream and of course it bled & began growing days after? So we haven't tried that anymore. I KNOW it doesn't look like it... but I have been Treating him for months, but now it's sooo big...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Thank you sooo much! I just am HEARTBROKEN because I have tried everything from Vaseline ...at the very beginning of this to try and remove it 14 days faithfully and then 14 days of Neosporin and this thing just acted like it was FEEDING off anything I have tried! UUUGHHH!!! It grew leaps and...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Also...no respiratory with this and there was some swelling of the skin around the eye although he has HUGE beautiful eyes . I am wondering if this didn't come from lice because I had a few birds in the flock that had them but treated everyone ( ivermectin drops ) and cleaned coop and soaked the...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Thank you for answering and for the warm welcome! If that is an ear infection why didn't the antibiotic work in the early stages of this? HMMM What cause's ear infections? I also put Neosporin Daily for about 14 days after I used plain Vaseline 14 days, when this was only the size of a nickel...
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    PLEASE??? IDENTIFY??? Rooster has a LARGE HARD MASS growing behind his ear...PHOTO!!!

    Can ANYONE Identify what this could be? Started out about nickel sized and flat Treated him for Lice & mites. This just keeps growing now he is having problems with equilibrium... but he eats and drinks good. I have treated him with Duramycin a couple of times since June & also Ivermectin for...
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