lice

  1. Rose Quartz

    Lice eggs

    I was given my sisters birds after her neighbor complained about them... Of her birds there are 2, 3 year old (langshan)hens, and 2, 2 year old (brahma) hens, as well as some less than one year old bantams and marans hens. The langshan hens are just finishing a very hard molt and seem to be...
  2. SniperGoose

    Lice!

    So I got a rescued racing homer pigeon the other week, and today I was handing him as normal when I got home from work and I felt something crawling on me. It was two long, thin bugs. I googled, and sure enough, they're feather lice. They look exactly like this...
  3. purpletiger

    Depluming mites! Please help! Confused with what treatment to use.

    Hello everyone! I noticed that the feathers on my birds have become raggedy at the ends with some horizontal lines on the wing and tail feathers. I'm thinking they have a case of depluming mites. I plan on cleaning out the coop and spraying everything down with permethrin. My bantam cochin's...
  4. rascal66

    Poultry lice on my hair!!!

    Sad story, but my Rooster suddenly died on me this morning. I'm like 85% sure he choked while eating. Especially since his comb and wattle was purple the moment i saw him thrashing around. Anyways, long story short, I went to go process him. I periodically check my flock for lice, but looks...
  5. GermanKennhuhn

    Help!!!Lice!? Mites!? All at once!!!

    A while ago I noticed that my chickens had little bugs crawling all over them. After a bit of research, I determined it was chicken lice. We try to treat our chickens with natural treatments, so I tried DE. Now, a couple weeks later, I noticed that not only the lice have come back, but now they...
  6. MelissaRose

    Neem oil for lice: How should I treat them and is this brand ok?

    Hello! I have to treat my chicken for lice because some of them are very infested. I do not want to use chemicals and I read that people have successfully used neem oil. So, I got a pint of concentrated neem oil in town. It says its for gardens but I assume that would work for chickens too? The...
  7. PrincessLay-a

    My hens look a mess!

    Hey chicken keeping community! I am popping on her to ask some advice on my ugly hens... Lately my flock has been quite raggedy looking, broken feather, missing feathers, dirty feathers; this is mostly just a feather issue. I have 4 different pens all varying in ages: one maybe 3 years old...
    • PrincessLay-a
    • Thread
    • broken feather shafts dingy feathers hens lice missing feathers molting roosters ugly ugly birds
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  8. LemonyCatapult

    Can’t get rid of lice!!!

    I have a 1 year old Silkie rooster who came to us with scaly leg mites and lice. He is absolutely INFESTED! I’ve put out diatomaceous earth for him and the others, I’ve also bathed him in my sink countless time with flea shampoo to no avail. None of my other chickens have lice (or at least not...
  9. k2panman

    We’ve got a coop with a million of these live or mites?

    Here are some close up photos of our pests. We were gone for 2 weeks and came back to a real mess. We have 7 chickens, a predator proof coop with an automatic door, 5 gallon bucket feeders and water buckets with the tickle nozzles. They free range on 5 acres. When we got home, besides having 2...
  10. SpookZoneSpooker

    Peachick with lice

    I've been raising peafowl for 2 years now, my first batch of peas just recently had their own clutches! I've hand raised my hens, so they allow me to check on their nests without too much fussing. I was checking the first (and we suspect the only) peachick from a clutch of 9 and I discovered the...
  11. L

    What are these & how do I get rid of them?

    So one of my silkies has been broody for a few weeks now and I’ve been keeping an eye on her (she does not get to hatch any babies this time, unfortunately). Today she got off her nest voluntarily for the first time in weeks—I picked her up and realized—HUGE parasite infestation. I haven’t...
  12. rascal66

    Safe to use fertile eggs to incubate after Permethin?

    I just dusted my coop and some of my girls since they have some lice. I was already collecting eggs prior for incubation and just realized that I have no idea if the eggs tomorrow will now be ideal after this treatment for incubating? Thoughts? I used Gardstar poultry dust. I'm hoping I can...
  13. theharve01

    Treating lice on an untame flock

    hi, i have ordered a powdered lice treatment. but i dont know how i will administer it without been able to catch my hens, i was given the flock by a friend. but they are not that tame. they dont let you grab them. should i just try make one of them leg hooks and catch them that way. or could i...
  14. MelissaRose

    Pullet has Wry neck, a rattling breath, and millions of lice. Can anyone help? she is about to die

    Hello all! I have a pullet that is about six or seven months old and she recently developed a case of wry neck(I think). She also has a rattling breath and does some open mouth breathing and gasping. She also has millions of lice that I am trying to treat. I am not joking about the millions, I...
  15. MelissaRose

    Coop and chickens infested with lice, pretty badly, need a little help.

    Hello all! I don't know how this happened, my Dad has been taking care of the chickens and I have not been checking them for lice. Today I treated a pullet for what I think is worms, she is pale losing weight and is not active. Does a lot of sleeping. I picked her up and held her when I was...
  16. F

    Irritated Breast Bone Area with Missing feathers

    I have 12 chickens and my 2 Golden Buffs have been looking a bit rough this spring. I figured they were just going through a molting stage (they are about 18 months old). However, upon further investigation, I noticed their breast bone area is very bare and reddish. The reddish are could be just...
  17. AliyahJade

    Peachicks - lice (help)

    I've recently got 5 young peachicks (approximately 3 weeks old now) and I have recently noticed lice on them. Tomorrow I'm going to the pet store for lice spray but are there any other measures and things I can do to help them from now up until then +after then? ( because I've lost a turkey...
  18. June Chick

    Freaking feather lice!

    alright, I’ve been treating my small flock (9) for about 5 weeks with poultry and garden powder for stupid feather lice. Is there anything (not ridiculously expensive) that I can buy and bathe them in that will kill all the lice AND the freaking eggs?? I’m so tired of having to do this every...
  19. MadAngler

    Elector PSP Offer

    Someone suggested that my girls had lice. So I bought some PSP. It seems to be working. BUT, I feel like I got ripped off. I spend $150 on 8 ounces of PSP. I only used about a teaspoon of it. So... If anyone wants/needs PSP, let me know. I can send you a little (1-5 teaspoons). Or I can...
  20. RosterRookie

    Blemishes / Spots on Combs

    Merry (early) Christmas. We're new here to the forum and relatively new to owning chickens as well. For the past 9 months we've had almost no problems at all but recently we've noticed a few spots on some of the girl's combs. We've already poked around in the forums and see we're hardly the...
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