I am determined to beat it! I am getting the poultry dust as well as the permithryn. They have a dust bath in the coop now too will have sand and wood ash, I’m just collecting it from woodstove right now.
Me too! I hate these damn bugs. When I check them I don’t see any on them because I think they pick them off and dust bath, but I had 2 hens die this year and both were crawling with the lice or mites so I know there is an infestation. They were old and I don’t think they were able to pick them...
I’ve never been able to find anywhere that will ship here up until now, last night I found a US company that will, it’s the 10% gallon jug you dilute it was 130$ cad to order it here but it should make like 20x more stuff than the can I was buying for 45$ cad hopefully!
Everything’s way more in Canada unfortunately. We have poultry dust I’m going to buy tomorow, 20$ CAD I haven’t been able find any 10% permithryn the stuff I get is .50% in spray but it only does one full treatment. 44$ CAD uhg
Lol I’m gonna have to rethink chickens if it’s gonna cost me this much money every year. The spray is 44$ each and you need 3. the bedding every time is 50$
I know people are split between DE being safe or not, I’ve never used it but I have a bad lice/mite problem and I’ve sprayed the coop with dr doom and it didn’t work, I’m going to try again and do 2-4 treatments weekly but I built a dust bath inside the coop for them, I was going to use sand and...