I have a main flock of 13 hens and a rooster. I’ve gotten 4 healthy looking hens, but on closer examination I realized they had mites. I dosed them all with 1.5 ml of ivermectin cattle drench.
Later in the evening I was putting up my main flock and gave them a handful of grass. One of them...
My younger birds caught the lice/fleas, I don’t know which one. I only now noticed because of war and lots of work in the farm. They are very light, like they lost all the weight. I put some flea soap on them, but they look sick.
I gave them water with honey, and crushed vitamin pill on their...
TL;DR-- My whole flock has mites/fleas, is there a permanent solution to getting rid of them at this point?
It's been a while since I posted here, so hello again BYC.
Over the past few months our flock of 29 chickens has picked up little flea-looking pests, chicken mites? I'm not entirely sure...
so I was reading on how to get rid of fleas in ferrets and I saw somewhere that you can use a half dosage of the 5-10lb cat advantage flea treatment. I went to the store to pick some up and all they had was hartz in stock, and being lazy I picked that up instead. I assumed they were the same...
my dog has fleas she does have flea and tick stuff that goes on her neck but it isn't working and we got one of the best kinds (it was $45 for three doses) she has a lot of raw spots on her skin and is always itching PLEASE HELP ASAP