Gross! They look like some kind of lice eggs.View attachment 2001262
These eggs are all over my chickens. The Jersey Giants are the hardest hit. I know it’s hard to see with the flash on, they are white. No sign of anything crawling, just eggs. Treated with permethrin concentrate bath, thought they were gone, but I must have missed someone, because Hero is covered with them. Have not seen anything hatch. Ideas?
) Maybe when it dries I will put permethrin dust in that, and bathe Hero separately.
I can’t use dust, I have respiratory problems. I mixed the liquid concentrate with water according to the directions and bathed each bird. I treated only once though, didn’t know it didn’t kill the eggs. Will have to treat again. What a hassle!
What confuses me is that there are only eggs visible, can’t find the crawlers at all. Unless those ARE the lice/mites, I’ve never seen them move at all. I think I remember seeing these on dead songbirds too. Scary. I thought I killed them off last year with Scalex pet bird spray (had brown lice AND straw lice at the same time, yuck!), but a few eggs must have escaped. Poor Hero, he’s such a conscientious preener, but he can’t get rid of them, he has them the worst. Lost a lot of weight over the summer when I didn’t know he had them. He gained it back quickly after the permethrin bath, but now he is recovering from a respiratory infection and I can see he is covered with eggs again.
I did just give them a new sand bath (and of course it rained the next day, so the sand is all wet!
Ugh, Jesus help me, please!
I agree, that’s gotta be some kind of eggs. You can use a permethrin spray and spray down the coop & birds about every 4-5 days until the infestation is gone. 
