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If there is no bugs to be seen, I don't worry about it.
You CAN try to order the dust and Diatemaceous Earth at Feed Stores, keep trying, sooner or later you will hopefully find a 50# bag for about $28.
Anything smaller is a rip off if ya ask me.
I have seen 2# bags for $30 !!!!!!!!
I have a new clean rubbermaid garbage can I keep the DE in, stays dry.
I sprinkle it, a big scoop with 1/2 bag of all purpose sand, and dump & mix in the mortar tub, and each coop has one.
Clean stuff out of it with a cat litter "spoon" and each bird will dust themselves.
That is how we do it here.
I have DE and had been using it. I did buy an extra large kitty litter pan and put send mixes with permithrin in it for the infected birds. I will change that out in about a week. After that, if there is no sign of bugs, I will refill the pan with sand and DE. In the pen, with the birds that I could not find lice on I put more DE in their sand. Will keep an eye on them all. Thanks for your advice!
Ginny
If there is no bugs to be seen, I don't worry about it.
You CAN try to order the dust and Diatemaceous Earth at Feed Stores, keep trying, sooner or later you will hopefully find a 50# bag for about $28.
Anything smaller is a rip off if ya ask me.
I have seen 2# bags for $30 !!!!!!!!
I have a new clean rubbermaid garbage can I keep the DE in, stays dry.
I sprinkle it, a big scoop with 1/2 bag of all purpose sand, and dump & mix in the mortar tub, and each coop has one.
Clean stuff out of it with a cat litter "spoon" and each bird will dust themselves.
That is how we do it here.
I have DE and had been using it. I did buy an extra large kitty litter pan and put send mixes with permithrin in it for the infected birds. I will change that out in about a week. After that, if there is no sign of bugs, I will refill the pan with sand and DE. In the pen, with the birds that I could not find lice on I put more DE in their sand. Will keep an eye on them all. Thanks for your advice!
Ginny