permethrin

At first I thought my chicken was egg bound, based on some lethargy and holding her tail down. However, after looking further it seems my hen, Cupcake, has mites, as do probably a few other of my hens. I just cleaned out the coop really well yesterday and bought some permethrin (Permectin II...

Summary: I have 19 chickens that have mites and intend to dip them in permethrin and have questions regarding the situation. If you wish, skip to MY QUESTIONS at the bottom. Also, my qualifier is not meant to be rude, but I am looking for experience and help and knowledge. Not opinions, not...

My 8 week old gosling and my runner ducks have feather lice. I've dusted them with DE and cleaned their house and put DE there but they are still suffering. Feathers are starting to look raggedy! I can see the suckers on their feathers! Yikes! I've looked around and some people use Ivermectin...

Hi everyone, I was going to check here because I was having a hard time finding this info online. Does anyone know if you can still call your eggs organic if you are using permethrin? I can just ask the neighbors that I sell to about their comfort level, but we also sell to a collective that...

What form of permethrin has a longer lasting residual killing effect for mites and lice on chickens. The powder permethrin where you dust onto your birds or the concentrate you dilute in water and dip them into? I will have to be treating my animals more often as there are many wild birds. So...

Hi everyone, thank you for looking at my post and potentially trying to help me find an answer to my dilemma. I live in the Bay Area and in the past few years there have been an upsurge in Tropical Rat Mites (Ornithonyssus bacoti). In the past hour or so I stumbled upon Elector PSP and have...

I was planning to give my broody hen some eggs tomorrow, because the hatch date would coincide with the date that the nearby co-op get chicks (I want to add some new breeds to my flock), but I have had two hens die in the last week. I think it was caused, or at least worsened, by a mite problem...

Hello Everyone, I am coming to the realisation that finding Permethrin in the UK is becoming quite difficult. I've read the very helpful thread on percentage dilutions here and as a new chicken keeper was hoping that the transition on this side of the pond, in terms of treatment for mites...

Hi everyone, and Happy New Year. My 2022 is off to a rollicking start battling mites. I first noticed them crawling around one of my chicken's vents who I have been treating for EYP. She was teeming with them, and her mates were too (though to a lesser degree). This must've been recent as I've...

I have used the permethrin 10 spray on my henhouse and hens last summer, to kick a bad bout of mites/lice. It worked great, and my hens feathers came back😀 However, I noticed a few broken feathers on a hen….That is what I saw previously, before recognizing a pest at work. So, to be proactive, I...

Hi all! I am staying at my MIL house, with my 4 dogs and 3 chickens. She has a ton of cats and fleas are all over the backyard. We did so much research, decided permethrin was our best bet to battle them. Safe via ratio chart at .50 it’s been sunny and dried out over 24 hrs. (Yes cats were kept...

Hi, this is my 1st time posting and 1st time chicken owner after my dad irresponsibly bought chicks in March 2020. We experienced a predator attack that left us emotionally traumatized, with only 1 small hen left named Jin (we thought Jin was a cute name but didn't know the chick's gender at the...

So we started treating mites 3-4 weeks ago. First we treated with permethrin for a week or 2 then switched to ivermectin for 2 weeks. We cleaned the coop out and sprayed it down each time we treated the birds. I double and triple checked the dosages and concentrations we used. We checked last...

Hello everyone, My girlfriend and I have a small flock up in the mountains of Colorado and have a hen with a very interesting problem. We added two laced Wyandotte’s to our flock last year and they’ve been good producers, but not super friendly towards us (which is fine). When they first came...

I have a 1 y/o silkie hen who has really been having a rough go the past few days. I was handling her the other day, looking for mites and I couldn’t find any physically on her but when I got inside I found 3 crawling on my arm so I figured she (as well as the rest of my flock) must be...

Hi all, would like to know a good mixture of permethrin that would not harm my chickens and me. Thanks!.

Hey guys! I've been on this forum a lot and decided to make an account to ask a question as I'm currently treating my chickens for lice. I completely cleaned out their coop, sprayed it all down with Permethrin, and sprayed all of the chickens around 10 days ago, and was planning to spray them...

Hello friends, I have 3 barred rocks and a brahma that free range in our little spot in the woods. Our hens were gifted to us in January. We recently discovered a lice infection. We treated the hens and the coop with Permectrin II. We followed the dilution ratios on the Permectrin II bottle to...

Hi all, I'm looking for some advice after discovering a maggot infested wound on one of our hens yesterday. We initially panicked at the sheer horror of the injury, it seems that the maggots had been tunneling away under her skin on her belly for quite awhile, and we only became aware when the...

Good morning I’ve had an issue with my flock for awhile now. They constantly shake their heads. It’s like a quick shake, say, like you would to shake your hair out of your eyes. They also constantly scratch their heads. They have lost feathers ALL summer, like they are molting. They have a good...