Can't get rid mites and lice

[Pampered chicken girl]

When applied correctly, permethrin will treat red mites, fleas, and all types of lice, but it might not treat the Northern Fowl Mite, those have been showing resistance to permethrin for many years. As already suggested, try the liquid permethrin and see if that helps.

Whatever you use, it must be applied in a way that gets it on the skin, and there are different types of lice that live on different parts of the body, so you will need to treat the entire bird, not just the vent.

We do treat the entire body. I'll try liquid

 

[swilliams4life]

I've been trying to get rid of mites and lice on my chickens for awhile now and but nothing is working. We use permethrin powder and dust twice, once a weak, but we still have mites. Any better treatment ideas?
TIA and have a good day!

Dust them with diatomaceous earth, dust coop and hen boxes with diatomaceous earth. Also we use Saturday Lime - brand is great for sprinkling a little under the coops sand and diatomaceous earth. We also use PDZ n coop. We only use a lil wood shavings with all the above in winter to help keep them warm/dry. But not in fall-spring and summer.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Dust them with diatomaceous earth, dust coop and hen boxes with diatomaceous earth. Also we use Saturday Lime - brand is great for sprinkling a little under the coops sand and diatomaceous earth. We also use PDZ n coop. We only use a lil wood shavings with all the above in winter to help keep them warm/dry. But not in fall-spring and summer.

Ok, I have Saturday lime

 

[Rurumo]

Another low risk option https://entomologytoday.org/2016/07/18/battling-chicken-mites-with-bags-of-brimstone/

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Are you treating the coop too or just the birds? You won’t get rid of them just treating the birds. You have to completely change the bedding and treat the coop too.

I treat the coop as well.

 

[Isadora]

Have you only tried the permethrin in dust form?

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Have you only tried the permethrin in dust form?

Yes

 

[Al Gerhart]

How is your bio security? Wild birds or rodents might be bringing them in. I know that not all pests share hosts but some do.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

How is your bio security? Wild birds or rodents might be bringing them in. I know that not all pests share hosts but some do.

They are kept in a covered run

 

[Al Gerhart]

Impossible for a mouse, rat, or wild bird to enter?