Chicken lice.. I'm over it!!!

[Pharm Girl]

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Sevin dust contains carbaryl, a different chemical than permethrin. Sevin dust will kill lice quickly. You'll need to redust in 10 days to kill nits hatched from eggs...the same with the inside their house and nests after the initial dusting.
The reason eprinex didnt work is because eprinex will only kill mites, not lice. Eprinex's primary purpose along with ivermectin pour on is a wormer. It's secondary benefit is that both will kill mites. Both products are absorbed into the bloodstream and circulated throughout the chickens system; paralyzing or killing worms and killing mites, mites suck blood and lice dont. Adams flea and tick products will kill lice as well. I prefer the sevin dust, it kills both lice and mites.

Since you are in the know about such matters, does this mean that I inadvertently dewormed my flock? That's would be good, not that they had worms that I knew of, but at least there would be some benefit to the $40 lost! My EE is a mouth breather and I always worry about gape worm , though I think she's just hot. She's my largest bird.
How long do you dump the eggs after sevin?

 

[Pharm Girl]

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Sorry your battling the buggies too! No fun.

 

[redhen]

My concern is: How can you ensure you have coated the birds good enough with the Sevins? I cant seem to get enough on them...
How do you all do it?
And what kind of Sevins do you use?? Liquid? Powder?

 

[Mahonri]

I thought the eggs were find to use after the sevin?

 

[Pharm Girl]

This is an old thread I read that turned me off to Sevin and on to Eprinex, but I think it took me down a wrong path. Maybe I'll have to try Sevin after all. Not what I wanted to do, but...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=56888&p=1

 

[melloladies]

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I was just reading this thread and I told my husband if we had to do this again we were using a whole container of the sevin on my 7 birds!! Right now we use a little stocking powder puff, and poof thier butts, backs, necks, and under their wings liberally at night.

Pharmgirl- misery loves company, right?? Hopefully the lice bugs will go far far away soon!!

 

[ky-chicken-farmer]

before dusting our birds i clean the coop really good and even use a shop vac to get all the dust and dried skin flakes. Just sweeping wth a broom still leaves dust. I then mix up a sevin dust whitewash in a sprayer and spray all the corners, cracks, roosts and nesting boxes(keep the sprayer shook up). After it dries fill the nests back wth straw and dust it also. Seems to work for me, maybe these tips will help others

 

[welasharon]

You don't want to over do the dust. It isn't good for you or the chickens to breathe in. I tried the pillowcase method...you have to be careful not to let them pull their heads back into the case...but it worked pretty good. I tried just dusting from the can... can be tricky to hold. I haven't tried the cheese shaker way but I will once I find one. My seramas had themthe other day...I just turned them on their backs dusted the bums, put some under the wings, flipped them over and put a little down their backs and let them loose. There is no egg withdrawal with seven. I think the issue with the pour on is that it doesn't get all the worms that the valbazen gets maybe? And then an issue with possible build up of resistance.
sharon

 

[Chickenaddict]

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I use iver on (ivermectin pour on) If your not careful when putting it on their neck and it hits the feather fluff its a lost cause, I sometimes have to pluck the area where I want to administer the iver on to be sure I get it directly on the skin. I dose them once every 3 months topped off with adams flea and tick spray with precon in it and haven't had a problem with mites or lice since. I also use DE in the coop mixed with the shavings.

There are sooo many different types of creepy crawly bugs sometimes it is hard to tell which kind of bug you need to treat. Feather mites are much harder to get rid of then northern fowl mites.

 

[Pharm Girl]

Just picked some eggs out of the nest that had lice crawling all over them. That's after 3 rounds of treatment! We must have very drug resistant lice.

Off to buy Seven, I give up..