chicken lice and people lice

[appps]

Well I'm a bit concerned as I've discovered mine have something which I believe is lice (teeny thing crawled on my hand when I got the eggs this morning) and I have little bites itching and driving me crazy lately. I'm not talking about head lice, the bites are on my arms and torso.
We have no other pets and I thought fleas but have looked near carpet and there is nothing and I don't have them on my legs and from what I read that's where you first see flea bites.

Also curious if they are so host specific humans can't get from birds why do I keep reading the birds can get them from rodents? Wouldn't they be a too different host from a bird too?

Oh and pretty sure not bed bugs as have checked that too and hubby isn't covered in the bites. Just me and my daughter who is the other one that plays with the chooks.

 

[123ChickieLou]

I really think that if we got lice from chickens, my whole family would have had them by now.
I looked this up bc my daughter, who attends Pre-K and plays closely with kids there, has (well, had earlier today) lice. I found them two days ago and thought they were fleas from the cat. We had a break out of fleas a couple of months ago and have since been paranoid and still finding one or two here and there. I found the lice bc I'm in the habbit of checking her head every morning when I comb it for school.
I'm pretty sure it came from school, but I wanted to see if it is possbile that chickens could be vectors of lice. We brought home 6 new chicks/juveniles about two weeks ago. Four of the six live in a crate in the house but we don't often handle them.
I did have a chicken once that carried mites/lice on her neck no matter what. I just wanted to make sure that the lice didn't come from her.

 

[wildehen]

I am so glad I found this thread. I just picked up our hens for showing and when I set them down I was COVERED in the blonde lice! I nearly lost my mind. I stripped naked in the front yard (good thing we are country folk) and ran inside and showered in scalding hot water and scrubbed my skin and hair raw! Then I read these posts, followed the link posted by Classless Chicks and was relieved. I was pretty sure that was the case, but since I have 4 cats, a corn snake a lab and two long haired female humans and 2 males, I figured I had better check...check...and RE-check online before I assumed!

Thanks for always being a wealth of info on this board!