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  1. aquariansun

    Giardia!!!

    we live in mexico and i assumed our testing positive for giardia ourselves was due to poor hygiene in the community (i.e. from food poisoning eating out type transmission, there's a higher incidence rate in developing countries), and i didn't know that giardia cysts could travel on the wind as...
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    Organic method for treating chicken lice?

    but now that i think about it...that's not necessarily true here in mexico...because my in-laws have told me that when they had chickens many years ago, they had infestations in which they themselves got affected by the lice- itchy bites, etc. might have been another, tropical species.
  3. aquariansun

    Organic method for treating chicken lice?

    thank god because i am pretty brave when it comes to critters, but with lices & maggots...yuck!
  4. aquariansun

    Organic method for treating chicken lice?

    I did not blow dry them, we have a lot and it would have been too much time. We did it early in the morning so they have the full sun all day to dry. No one suffered :-) I am definitely sure I found a lice on me before I washed them so thats why I freaked out & washed them...but then we...
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    Organic method for treating chicken lice?

    I ended up (for the laziness factor) mixing a solution of salt + Dr. Bronner's Eucalyptus soap (truly biodegradable) and it worked great! The birds ended up shiny & clean, and actually we didn't even find any lice floating up off of them. We inspected them and they didn't have any on their...
  6. aquariansun

    any experience in turkeys sitting on hen eggs?

    Sorry I couldn't find anything with search about this... I'm in a bit of an unusual situation in that I'm making the rules up as I go since we're in rural Mexico & I normally had access to more informational resources when I lived in the States...anyways... I am raising turkeys for...
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    Organic method for treating chicken lice?

    I am very excited to try this method. I travel between Mexico (my home) and the States a lot and while I was up here in NY I purchased Dr. Bronner's eucalyptus Castile soap precisely to try what you have explained, but with Dawn. I used to live in California where I heard that eucalyptus is a...
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