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Thanks for your 2 cents! nice ideas, too. I think my problem was that there were gonster-sized egg sacks which had to go...pretty gross. It was slow and difficult to remove them, but we were even more determined than those bugs. Q for the day: how can such small bugs produce such enormous egg...

Oops, K, I forgot Partridge IS Blackbird and was the one being re-homed. Tweety and Jewel made me promise no paparazzi until their feathers grow back in! It'll take me that long to figure out the whole posting pics thing...time to bribe our kids for a tutorial, right? Jewel's (NHR) reaction...

Hi K & thanks for the good wishes......we used every one of them today! We bathed the two really infested hens, using flea shampoo and Dawn dish detergent...I feel like such a bad mommy for not realizing there was a problem earlier May have egg sack nightmares tonight! (Perhaps I'll strike...

So after spending forever cleaning out the coop yesterday, please don't say it has to be done again in a week? As long as we're DE'ing. I'm trying also to get them interested in a dust bath area with play sand and DE...but they haven't tried it. Probably since it's not nearly as fun as digging...

So, Henry, when you give your chickens a bath, don't forget to add a little rubber ducky! Are you treating your flock for lice or mites? I think we're dealing with lice, since I saw something black & the size of a sesame seed, too large for a mite. We also noticed a few black mystery bugs...

I really appreciate everybody's help and hearing your experiences. Wonder if it might work to mix in some Dawn with the dog shampoo? After the wash (hoping for the drip dry approach), once each "girl" is dry, do we re-dust, maybe with DE because it would be too soon to use a Permethrin dust...

Thanks so much!! This is (obviously) the first time we've had to deal with this and I'm trying not to feel overwhelmed ....it's VERY windy/cool here today with expected frost tonight, so I'm not sure if it's OK to wait until slightly better conditions tomorrow to bathe them......hoping those...

Thanks for the wonderful info - have printed it off. I'm assuming dog shampoo will work just as well as cat shampoo, since I've seen it posted. Sure appreciate it!

Sorry if this has been posted a billion times already, but I couldn't find it in the time I had for a search today (spent yesterday researching pests) - Yesterday we discovered some of our adult chickens have lice or mites, with egg clusters galore and tiny white crawlies. I also spotted a...