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I have read that the life cycle of mites can be as little as 4 days (a lot of websites say more like 7 days), but most of the websites I read say to retreat in 7-10 days. Naturally I always tell people now to treat every 7 days until they are gone. Lice have a longer life cycle and thus...

The liquid permethrin label folds out if you try to remove it from the bottle and gives dilution recommendations for spraying the birds. http://www.uky.edu/Ag/PAT/recs/livestk/recpou/poulic.htm Here is a link in case you can't find it. Oh and I love love love your roosts and girls! They look...

Oh my! Do you have the possibility of rodents in the coop at night? Feathers are high in protein. I would think you would be seeing some lice eggs or lice if it were lice. But I have only dealt with mites...just read up a lot on lice. With mites, I have found that even if I cannot find them on...

Lice eat the feathers.

In order to treat each one of my chickens I go out there before the sun is up all the way. That way they are still kind of sleepy. I go in the coop and gather one off the roost, take them outside where I have a table set up with my powder sock, and dust that one. Then I let them go outside (so I...

Ivermectin does not work on lice...I would try the tried and true dusting treatment, repeating every 7 days if possible (but definitely treat at 14 days after the first treatment)!! If you have mites and lice, you will need to do it every 7 days, no question. The mites have a shorter life cycle...

Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=423023&p=1 here is a huge thread in case you hadn't seen it for maybe some ideas

Quote: I know you have probably already ruled this out, but are there any egg eaters do you think?

Quote: Farmerboy16, I just read your post and was wondering what treatments you decided on and how did they work? I have discovered lice on my 200 plus flock and did dust all of them last week with DE. Just checked them two days ago and found still a few lice which will quickly become many...

http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/0018.html This link has important information about retreating to get the hatching eggs. See the bottom of the page for instructions. Today I dusted 58 chickens with Permethrin poultry dust, whew. Took me a very long time. If you set up dust baths in concrete...