2 of my beloved Hens dead after Permectrin treatment for mites!!! :(

[cmom]

Wow....
Possibly the Birds became anemic due to the over load.

I agree, I even bathed my birds with flea shampoo originally and surprisingly I did get rid of a lot of mites but not all.

 

[cmom]

I did have a bird that was more loaded with the mites than the others. I first tried the flea shampoo on her twice and there were still a few on her.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Soap or detergent is used to kill large numbers of starlings and other blackbird populations when their roosts become to crowed and their droppings become a public health threat. The roosts are sprayed with the detergent at dark and hopefully right before a rain. The shampoo or detergent strips the oils off of the starlings feathers and a night of roosting in the rain and shivering on a tree limb kills the nuisance birds grave yard dead.

Has any of you ever considered what you are doing when you bathe your chickens? Besides, chickens only like to wallow in the dirt to get clean.

 

[casportpony]

Bathing a bird covered in mites is a good way to kill them. Same goes for using a permethrin spray.

*Please do not use spray or bath birds with serious infestations, use a powder instead.*