A couple questions

[poniesforever]

ok... so I guess its just up to the individual which to use... if other people are using it, and its not killing off their chicks and chickens... I guess I'm not so afraid to use it also if need be. I understand some people are all about being "green"... but when it comes to bugs... I don't want anything to do with bugs of any kind. Flies are bad enough, but the kind of bugs that crawl on ya... nope... not for me. I know chicken bugs generally can't live for long on people... but I still don't want them on me or my grand kids either for that matter! Plus I have horses, and my vets tells me Chicken lice can live on horses, so I'm not into that at all! I am just so new to chickens, that I don't know what is safe to use for the chicken. I use Endure mixed with Bronco on my horses, and Frontline on my dogs and cats. So I am open to any suggestions for what to use with chickens! I just don't want to poison them. I would like to put a few in the freezer this fall. Thanks for the info. And if anyone else has more suggestions to keep bugs off chickens... I'd love to hear them!

 

[JesikaD01]

we also have 6 week old chicks (so by no means am I an expert) but as soon as we moved them outside (last week) we covered the floor in DE and I have not seen any bugs so it appears to be working!

 

[n8ivetxn]

I wish the DE worked for me, I try not to use anything toxic on my animals, or myself

, but I also know that those bugs suck the life out of the birds. I have one pullet that's been in a funk since I bought her.... I've wormed her 2x in the last month, no improvement.... I was holding her on my lap one day and noticed the bugs crawling all over my hands

So I liberally applied the poultry dust. I've checked her 2x since June 11 and found no bugs. Her appetite has been better, she even scratches in the dirt a little and forages out in the pasture some....before, she just kinda stood around, frumpy looking.....a little gust of wind blew her over one day

Yes, horses and other livestock will get those bugs.... I hear people say humans don't get them, but I'm not too sure about that - I wouldn't want to test the theory!