Chicken Lice now what?????? HELP!!!

[cityslickers]

I just got 4 laying hens I noticed 1 was'nt eating that much and her shells were really thin... So I was holding her and I was looking for mites YUK!!!! I found lice I think small wheat colored bugs that run fast...That's lice right?..Well I have been reading alot about chickens so I have sevin dust and DE...

How do I put on the sevin dust? Any help would be greatful!Thanks

 

[dixiechick]

I do two things. I have dusted and bathed. Now I do both. You can bathe the birds with dog flea/tick shampoo and that will kill 'em. Then, a day or so later, when my birds are dry, I will dust them. We took an old coffee can and poked tiny holes in the bottom and filled with Sevon Dust (5%) and I hold the birds (taking care of holding their heads away) and DH shakes the dust on them...making sure it gets to the skin. Make sure you dust around the vent and under the wings.

As you are bathing them, have someone dust their living quarters. It IS disgusting, but easy to treat.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

 

[dixiechick]

Oh, I also give a tiny squirt of Frontline under each wing after they have been bathed and towel dried. You can get this at your vet...it's will last forever (depending on the size of your flock).

 

[SunshineSilkies]

I use one of those aluminum flour sifters to dust mine with Sevin. Works Great. Just what Dixiechick said also......I hate mites..never had lice though..

 

[cityslickers]

Thanks dixiechick I ran 2 the store and got flee and tick shampoo
3 hens down 1 hen and a roo to go...Thanks will be cleaning out the coop in the morning they were in quarintine so i am Lucky

thanks to the purplechicken I quarintine all my birds now....

But again I thank you gals I think the poor hens thank you also...

Frontline in the am I know I have some hummm where is it!!!!!

 

[threehorses]

I really prefer Permethrin, poultry dust, as it won't harm honey bees or geckos (which kill roaches, the roaches being harmful for chickens as they carry eye-worm).

It's a synthetic version of a natural flower-based insecticide that used to be made by crushing flowers.

Put in the bedding, under the bedding, and dust the birds thoroughly paying careful attention to the warm moist areas: under the wings, around the vent, back of neck.

Retreat the birds every 7 days until you see no lice.

Alternately, still dust the premises, but use ivermectin and dust on the birds if the lice are the blood-taking kind. The ivermectin will remain active in them for 28 days and also worm your birds. (Only do this if your birds are wormed every 6 months... otherwise treat with dust only, worm with wazine 17, and then in 2 weeks treat with ivermectin).

Though lice spend less time off of the bird, you really do need to treat the premises lightly at least.