Best lice treatment

[LyndsayJade]

Hi all! What are you using to treat lice on your chickens. I notice my girls and been preening a lot, so I was checking and found lice on them. Ewww. I read that you can use Ivermectin lotion 0.5% by putting a drip on the back of their neck. Has anyone done this or do you have a better recommendation? I also read elector psp is good, but man, they are proud of that stuff!

 

[DobieLover]

In the 7 years I've had chickens they've gotten lice just once and it was caught very early. I just dusted mine with permethrin based poultry dust and that did the trick. I have never used spot on treatments like Ivermectin so I cannot comment on the efficacy.

Do your birds have good dust bathing options?

 

[LyndsayJade]

They did not. They are new to me, so I have been keeping them in the coop for a couple weeks before I allowed them to free range. I have made a dust bath container for them and sprinkled diatomaceous earth in it. This is my first flock, so it never dawned on me to have one in the coop, till I googled how to get rid of lice.

 

[nuthatched]

They did not. They are new to me, so I have been keeping them in the coop for a couple weeks before I allowed them to free range. I have made a dust bath container for them and sprinkled diatomaceous earth in it. This is my first flock, so it never dawned on me to have one in the coop, till I googled how to get rid of lice.

Diotomaeceous Earth will not do anything for mites or lice, unfortunately. You'll have to use permethrine.

 

[LyndsayJade]

Diotomaeceous Earth will not do anything for mites or lice, unfortunately. You'll have to use permethrine.

Ok, I will pick some up. Thank you!