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You really need to treat the coops with permethrin and alternate with spinosad. If there is that much wild life around you will need to spray the coop once a month and alternate. You can get captain jacks bug dead juice and mix a spray the same strength to kill garden pests. Spray the coop when...

Yes, kill them first and then remove them if you need to

permethrin, spinosad and pour on ivermectin are good choices. There is a chance that the fleas have resistance to ivermectin though. DE and they will be back! If you really can't get rid of them, you can use fiprinol but that can be hard on them.

Remember when we said to use pour on ivermectin? You put two or three drops on near her vent. It is like putting frontline on a dog--works from inside the hen. The dead fleas may not fall off though. Some think it is cruel, but holding a chicken upside down will calm them down

Catch her at night after dark. They are very easy to work with then. Get help too. One person to hold her and one to treat and pull off the fleas with tweezers

The beneficial nematodes move through the soil(this type--others stay put) and use the flea larvae as food for their eggs. They then move on to the next host and so on until the host is gone. They do not kill earth worms but are great for killing moth larvae and flea larvae. I have used them for...

You can use any flea poison. Some work internally by applying to the skin like ivermectin--still works of fleas, lice and mites. May not work one worms With the sticktight, you might need to tweeze them off. The flees come from the ground so you will need to clear the bedding and maybe burn...