Chicken Mite Treatment with Fluralaner (Bravecto Spot On) When I Couldn't Get Exzolt For My Chickens

[Finn G]

I want to share a video I made today, on treating my chickens northern fowl mites.

My chickens got northern fowl mite a month ago, took me some time to realize they're mites!

I tries diametious earth but it didn't work.

After a lot of exploration, I found Fluralaner can be effective on treating chicken mites, so I decided to buy some. But I can only get the 1L bottles of Exzolt in my country, while I would only need a few milliliters. It's financially not worth it.

So I researched and found Bravecto spot on for cats and dogs has the same chemical ingredients as Exzolt (founded this post from BYC: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-get-rid-of-mites-on-hens.1463120/page-2 ).

I got a near end-of-date Bravecto on discount (6 USD) for cat from second hand market (might be a lady who unfortunately lost her cat and doesn't need it anymore).

I gave it to my birds, it worked very well. So I made this video to tell people how I did it . The video is in 4K resolution, 27 minutes long, English is not my native language, so I speak a little bit slowly.

This is the 8th days after I gave them their first dose, the birds are alive, not symptoms I should be worried about, most of them are still laying eggs everyday. I think people who don't have access to Exzolt but have access to Bravecto might find this useful.

Lastly, the method used in the video is OFF LABEL USAGE, I'm not a vet, please only give your birds treatment after seeing a licensed vet!

 

[casportpony]

Thanks for sharing this!

 

[Finn G]

I want to update on this thread, the girl in the picture died today, 16 days after I gave her the treatment, other girls are fine and still laying eggs.

Two days before she died, the mites have completely gone, her vent is very clean like a normal chicken.

But it was a really hot day, and I didn't cleanup the poop, at night I noticed she opened her mouth to breath, I thought it was thermal tachypnea, the next morning I gave them watermelon, and sprayed water on the grape trellis to make them cool.

But after two hours I still noticed her lying on the ground and breath really quick, so I took her back to home where it is cool inside.

The day before she went away, she ate just like usual, she breath quickly I thought it could still be thermal tachypnea. I gave her watermelon and some anti bionic medicine in water, she didn't drink much but she ate a lot of water melon. I might have made a mistake here, if I didn't give her water melon but let her drink the medicine instead, she wouldn't have gone so quickly. Her poop was deep green.

This morning I go check her, her comb is deep purple, it can be a signal of short of oxygen, she might be in extreme short of oxygen, and gone away shortly after.

This girl hasn't been laying eggs since 7 months ago, before that I noticed some blood spot and meat spot in her eggs, she was quite a lovely girl.