yes I was concerned about that as well. The other spray also has some other ingredients I am not so sure of to put on birds. I decided to dust them with the pyrethrin dust and cleaned the coop well, what a fun Christmas project de-loucing birds :-) thank you for the info
You can get permethrin here but the one I found is sold as a house product not for livestock, I couldn’t find anything with permethrin for chickens themselves. I am not sure I will probably only use it in the coop since I don’t know if it’s able to be sprayed on the chickens. I also found a...
Thankyou all for the info ! Darn lice, I will look right away for a product at the feed store. Kiki, I am in Canada but I know I’ve seen permethrin products around before hopefully they have something that works. Thankyou
I don’t think it’s an emergency but I noticed one of my chickens looking hunched up and sleepy and on closer inspection I saw a few adult lice, like about 5 of them. I will be doing a diotomaceous earth treatment but generally speaking she seems a little unwell, not as alert and appears a bit...
Oh ok Thankyou for the info. Should have waited longer I suppose. I may try to re separate them then, and re integrate more slowly. I have been making sure she’s getting to the food and water.
New birds added about 3 weeks ago. I have 2 original adult hens (no idea on age) and 2 new hens. in a pen that is next to theirs but not attached there are nine 7 week mixed gender chickens, they will eventually be added but just the pullets. I’ll have to get some pics later when I feed this...
This is a complex one, I ended up adding 2 new hens to my flock. Introduced gradually but after a few days of all being together in the coop I noticed my black hen “Chevy” being attacked by the two new hens plus sometimes others joined in. I expected some fighting but they are being bullies and...
Yeah that’s the only way I’ve been successful at all is at night when they are sleepy or roosting. Unfortunately in my coop intend to wake them up as I enter the area. I’m trying to get them to start coming to treats though and sometimes can catch her.
If i weigh her regularly how much would...
She is proving quite hard to catch right now but I checked her yesterday and it seems that her crop felt full but it was new to me to check that so hopefully I’m right. I haven’t weighed her yet but if she lets me catch her tonight I will try. Thanks for all the info everyone
That is hilarious...
Fluffy hens, wow that’s great that she’s doing so well! Gives me hope for mine. Glad to hear it’s not always a death sentence. Funny I guess chickens can have look alikes