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  1. Kat C

    urgent help, one chicken is dying and the others might follow

    Sorry I didn't know that English is not your first language. However you need to know that having dust baths does not necessarily mean lice or a bad infestation of lice. Our chickens do not have lice or if they do they are so very few that they do no damage and I never see them. Yet they take...
  2. Kat C

    urgent help, one chicken is dying and the others might follow

    You say "caught them taking dust baths" as if that is something bad. Its how birds handle feather parasites. I never see lice or other parasites on our chickens and I see them take dust baths all the time. So the dust baths work, but I also think they are just programmed to do it and "enjoy"...
  3. Kat C

    urgent help, one chicken is dying and the others might follow

    Probably washing is enough, but you might feel better if you use a bit of chlorine bleach to disinfect. Marek's is a herpes virus http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/ This site says for human herpes "Use a fresh cloth to disinfect those areas with fresh bleach solution...
  4. Kat C

    urgent help, one chicken is dying and the others might follow

    I know culling is a hard call, but I believe in many cases it is the kindest call. Sorry for your loss but I applaud you for doing the hard but right thing.
  5. Kat C

    urgent help, one chicken is dying and the others might follow

    and also, please someone confirm if these are lice? No they are not lice https://hencam.com/faq/chicken-lice/ "The entire life cycle of these pests occurs on the fowl, which makes them fairly easy to control, since they don’t live in dirt and wood or in intermediary hosts like beetle larvae...
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