Chicken lice

[Eggcessive]

I believe the Martins in my picture in post 6 is 0.5% (double check me though,) and that is fine to use. Just doublecheck the % of permethrin. Directions usually say to use about 1/2 ounce per bird.

Those concentrate forms (several different brands) are sold in small 8 ounce or 16 ounce containers, and will make a lot of gallons of spray. Just follow label instructions for mixing. That comes in handy when emptying out bedding and spraying nests, roosts, and the coop with an infestation.

 

[oregonkat]

Thanks, @Eggcessive, I didnt go back and double check who was posting, sorry! So the spray is .5%, so is it necessary to spray the whole bird as it is not as strong as the concentrate or is it still OK to spot spray?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

@EggSighted4Life I have ordered the Martins ready to use spray, do I use it the same way as the Fly Rid? Just a spritz below the vent.... etc. thanks for this BTW, I have a new lice infestation that I want to quash ASAP.

Is it this one? Yes I would treat in the same manner. I did see on one of the sites I was looking at this just now that it stated not to use on animals under 12 weeks old. If it says that on my other product I must have missed it and have used for more than 2 years on younger birds without issue.

No, I don't worry about spraying the eggs sacks. The lice will hatch and crawl onto the skin where the residual and/or retreatment will handle them. Only thing I haven't figured out yet is if the hatched egg sacks still stay attached even though there is nothing in it or they are dead. I mean they are glued on so I don't THINK they just fall off or disappear... either before molt or without picking them off.

In fact, drawing from personal experience... I'm gonna say NO the egg sacks will NOT disappear. When my daughter was a babe, I always oiled her hair. Once I saw the gleaming beads about an inch away from the scalp. She had caught lice on a trip to my sisters, and I didn't realize it but the regular oil applied either killed them or made the original offender go away. Grown out over an inch they were definitely dead per our family practitioner, but I still had to get the dead eggs out using a lice comb....

I'm so used to talking about poultry lice, it don;t even make me itch anymore. (scratch my head)

BUT by paying attention, you should be able to tell if your issue is still active or has been taken care of, by the quality of skin and such. There are other sign aside from just the nits.

I did go to my local feed store this morning and this is the ONLY thing they had so I thought I would give it a try.

It's usually in the equine section... But I would probably go ahead and try that. If it seems ineffective, return it for a refund and look elsewhere for a permethrin product.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would see where the lice are located and spray there. Usually lice only affect one area of the body, depending on which type— the shaft lice are under the vent and lower belly, or the body louse which is found around the breast, thighs, and under wings. Here is a good link that explains all that:
https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8162.pdf

Here is a link for the one that is pictured above, and it is 0.5%, and good to use:
https://store.doyourownpestcontrol....4IocMSPcAaG9K7clTMewCCr5mwsXpsuQaAvNFEALw_wcB

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Thanks, @Eggcessive, I didnt go back and double check who was posting, sorry! So the spray is .5%, so is it necessary to spray the whole bird as it is not as strong as the concentrate or is it still OK to spot spray?

The one I was using the past two years also was only .5%, and IS effective... I have never sprayed my whole bird... same spot treatments to the skin is all. I guess it's awesome that my parasites clearly aren't showing any resistance! The concentrates have directions how to dilute them correctly... but they likely all HAVE to be diluted... In fact I got a 36.8% product (just across the cal/or border since they wouldn't deliver to CA), it is a termiticide... at higher doses. What you have should be fine as is without soaking the bird.

Plus we might meet one of these days, since I'm so close!

 

[DellaNTuff]

This is what I have been using. I purchased it from my vet when my dry kill powder ran out and it can no longer be purchased here.

You need to dilute it but it works very well. I used it on lice and soaked some leg mites that I had been fighting for months on a purchased pair. Got it coming around and the legs healing after the soak.
I am in Canada, not sure where you are though.

The direction for diluting for poultry are on the back, there a small withdrawal time for meat birds but it works very well for me.