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    STICKTIGHT FLEAS

    Just noticed my chickens have sticktight fleas. Some of them only have a couple on their faces around their eyes, on their comb, wattles etc. Others have quite a few. What is the MOST effective way of ridding them. I'm not a naturalist although I am open to effective methods. This is the first...
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    Lice...AGAIN!

    I feel like I am constantly battling lice. Is that normal?! Whenever I notice them I dust the birds with a wheelbarrow mix of DE, Sevin and Poultry and Garden Dust. Clean coops and repeat a week later. Should I just go back to Sevin straight up? Dust 3 weeks in a row?? Such a frustrating and...
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    Lice

    About two months ago I tackled a lice problem. I mixed (in a wheelbarrow) DE, Sevin, and Poultry dust. I dusted each bird (30) under wings, vent, breast, back. I repeated once a week for a month for a total of 4 dustings and cleaned the coop after every time except the last. I was determined to...
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    Infection or Eyeworn

    I have a 7 month old Black Copper Marans with an awful eye issue. It's very swollen, red, with nasty yellowish-white cheese looking gunk in the corner and one inner eyelid swollen as well. I started treating her with Terramycin approx 3x a day thinking it was an infection. It didn't help so I...
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