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hello
we sure could use a helping hand with advise suggestions links ect....
we are new to chickens and we adopted some chickens a fella had. I thought they were fairly well cared for. decent cleanliness in the coop when we arrived to look at the chickens. Food and Water all clean and filled. only major problem I saw was that he had far too many roosters for enclosure setup. 8 Roosters and 10 hens (about that)
anyways we have had these chickens for three days now. I was holding one of them rubbing her neck feathers when I visually saw a crawling parasite. From what I study this is most likely a species of lice. it was creamish in coloring and fairly quickly burrowed back into hens feathers I was unable to locate it again to remove it and get a clearer viewing of this parasite.
all the chickens are eating and drinking and very active.
what I know about these five chickens is this:
the gentleman got three of them from McMurry hatchery last year in April
other two hens are a cross breeding at his place
breeds are as follows:
4 hens and 1 Rooster
Rooster we got from this man is a D'Uccle Porcelain
one D'Uccle Porcelain hen
one Sultan hen
and two other hens that are a cross of bantam and araucana cross or something of the like (easter eggers)
Rooster has damage on his wings and also his tops of his feet are not right...I thought this was from roosters fighting and such behavior...of course him comb has black injury spots from fighting.
after finding lice today I wonder if this is result of lice.
I will try to post photos of his feet. *I know picture worth a thousand words*
also the little hen sultan lets out a small sneeze from time to time...*from the first day we brought her home 3 days ago not getting worse or better*
how we currently keep these chickens:
our coop is fully insulated and we provide a heatlamp when outside temps fall below 20 deg (thus far maintain heat inside coop in the 50s when its low 20s at night.
two windows that fully open to allow airflow when needed.
the flooring of indoor coop is covered with plywood and top dressed with 4 inches of pine shavings.
outdoor run is mostly protected from the winds and covered. this flooring we laid bark chips down...but it is a bit dusty underneath the bark chips. of course the hens love to scratch the bark chips around and get a nice area for their dust baths during the day time.
When I called the gentleman to ask about why our Sally Sultan would sneeze off and on he said must be a bit of dust at our place bothering her.
I dont see any discharge or any concerning behavior from Sally,....aside from a sneeze maybe every 15 min.?
no one else in the group in sneezing.
back to known problem of lice...
I currently only have permethrin by prozap garden and poultry dust. From what I know Permethrin is the synthetic version of pyrethrin?
would this be a wise choice to use on these chickens or should we be searching for a different product?
also can we still eat the hens eggs during treatment?
I wonder how to tell difference on SkyRoo our roosters feet if this is from him fighting with all those other roosters that man kept him with or if its a parasite issue/scaley leg parasite? or from the body lice?
it almost appears a bit inflamed skin tissue and like the feathers have not grew properly like pinfeathers when a bird gets new feathers before they open up to feathers.
he also has bald spots on the back side of wings also.
I was told by this gentleman that his chickens do not have lice. But we never have chickens before this is new for us and this was a mature parasite I found on the hen today...from what I understand the average lice's life cycle is two weeks. he said the bald inflamed areas on the rooster are just from the other roosters fighting with him.
I have my doubts now.
thank you for your time
I will try to figure out how to post photos in here and get a picture of him up
we sure could use a helping hand with advise suggestions links ect....
we are new to chickens and we adopted some chickens a fella had. I thought they were fairly well cared for. decent cleanliness in the coop when we arrived to look at the chickens. Food and Water all clean and filled. only major problem I saw was that he had far too many roosters for enclosure setup. 8 Roosters and 10 hens (about that)
anyways we have had these chickens for three days now. I was holding one of them rubbing her neck feathers when I visually saw a crawling parasite. From what I study this is most likely a species of lice. it was creamish in coloring and fairly quickly burrowed back into hens feathers I was unable to locate it again to remove it and get a clearer viewing of this parasite.
all the chickens are eating and drinking and very active.
what I know about these five chickens is this:
the gentleman got three of them from McMurry hatchery last year in April
other two hens are a cross breeding at his place
breeds are as follows:
4 hens and 1 Rooster
Rooster we got from this man is a D'Uccle Porcelain
one D'Uccle Porcelain hen
one Sultan hen
and two other hens that are a cross of bantam and araucana cross or something of the like (easter eggers)
Rooster has damage on his wings and also his tops of his feet are not right...I thought this was from roosters fighting and such behavior...of course him comb has black injury spots from fighting.
after finding lice today I wonder if this is result of lice.
I will try to post photos of his feet. *I know picture worth a thousand words*
also the little hen sultan lets out a small sneeze from time to time...*from the first day we brought her home 3 days ago not getting worse or better*
how we currently keep these chickens:
our coop is fully insulated and we provide a heatlamp when outside temps fall below 20 deg (thus far maintain heat inside coop in the 50s when its low 20s at night.
two windows that fully open to allow airflow when needed.
the flooring of indoor coop is covered with plywood and top dressed with 4 inches of pine shavings.
outdoor run is mostly protected from the winds and covered. this flooring we laid bark chips down...but it is a bit dusty underneath the bark chips. of course the hens love to scratch the bark chips around and get a nice area for their dust baths during the day time.
When I called the gentleman to ask about why our Sally Sultan would sneeze off and on he said must be a bit of dust at our place bothering her.
I dont see any discharge or any concerning behavior from Sally,....aside from a sneeze maybe every 15 min.?
no one else in the group in sneezing.
back to known problem of lice...
I currently only have permethrin by prozap garden and poultry dust. From what I know Permethrin is the synthetic version of pyrethrin?
would this be a wise choice to use on these chickens or should we be searching for a different product?
also can we still eat the hens eggs during treatment?
I wonder how to tell difference on SkyRoo our roosters feet if this is from him fighting with all those other roosters that man kept him with or if its a parasite issue/scaley leg parasite? or from the body lice?
it almost appears a bit inflamed skin tissue and like the feathers have not grew properly like pinfeathers when a bird gets new feathers before they open up to feathers.
he also has bald spots on the back side of wings also.
I was told by this gentleman that his chickens do not have lice. But we never have chickens before this is new for us and this was a mature parasite I found on the hen today...from what I understand the average lice's life cycle is two weeks. he said the bald inflamed areas on the rooster are just from the other roosters fighting with him.
I have my doubts now.
thank you for your time
I will try to figure out how to post photos in here and get a picture of him up
