Chicken Mites/Lice

[AustralorpLover1004]

I checked my rooster today for mites, and there was a huge red spot near his vent that I’m pretty sure is due to lice or mites. I’ve cleaned out the whole coop and the bedding, sprayed it down with poultry lice coop spray (including the roost), and mixed poultry dust with the bedding. I’ll dust them all when they come into the coop for the night, and I’m also going to get some DE and make a dusting box. Is there anything else I can do to help get rid of the mites and prevent them?

 

[NanaKat]

You have taken great steps already.
I like to place a drop of Ivomec on the skin under each wing. It is absorbed thru the skin.
Treatment with Ivomec can be done every six months as part of the worming treatment.

 

[Valair]

I hope you can help, I have treated all my ten chickens for mites. One hen had a bad infestation.....but now I have the things on me!!! I'm besides myself. I have dusted all the girls,cleaned the coops and treated the run with rinsed with wat

 

[Valair]

I hope you can help, I have treated all my ten chickens for mites. One hen had a bad infestation.....but now I have the things on me!!! I'm besides myself. I have dusted all the girls,cleaned the coops and treated the run with rinsed with wat

 

[Valair]

I hope you can help, I have treated all my ten chickens for mites. One hen had a bad infestation.....but now I have the things on me!!! I'm besides myself. I have dusted all the girls,cleaned the coops and treated the run with rinsed with wat

 

[Al Gerhart]

Check up on your bio security especially from rodents and wild birds. Both will bring in lice, mites, fleas, and other vermin. Tighten up the coop, a treadle feeder helps to prevent both feed loss and having the wild birds around. Most wild critters have a full time job finding enough to eat and won't come around a coop unless you are feeding them.

 

[Valair]

Thanks Al..here in Spain our chickens are out all the time, we don't have predators in my part of Spain. The girls put themselves to bed in little coops.
Feed is put outside also but bird and other little animals can't get at it as it's a knock knock on command feed that the hens have learnt to do.
But having spoken to other people in my area this year has been a strange year as far as the farmers are concerned. Different pests, in plagues!
I have , I think, got rid of the pests now and since learnt there are drops not unlike what you use for cats and dogs against lice and mites that protect them for 8 months.......
Hope that helps you also.
Thanks again

 

[cmom]

I have previously posted the best product to get rid of the mites in my opinion is permethrin which is very cost effective. I don't know if it is available where you live. I had some coops with some birds that were severely infested. I thought they were just molting but weren't getting their feathers back in when I discovered they were loaded with mites. The first thing I tried was DE. The birds weren't improving and still had mites. I first discovered them in one coop but then also found them on birds in another coop. I dusted the birds and the coops with the DE and no improvement after treating them for a couple of weeks. Next I did use some sevin dust that I had but it was almost gone but it did help. I did some research and came up with permethrin. I'm pretty sure the wild birds and rodents brought them in. I used the dust on the birds and in their nest boxes and sprayed inside of the coops, every crack and crevice, on and under the roosts, ceiling, walls, floors, anywhere the mites can hide. It's best to clean out the coop before you spray. I use pine shavings in my coops. I wear special clothing including a mask and gloves. I did a weekly spraying for 3/4 weeks and put permethrin dust in the nest boxes, originally sprayed the birds getting under the wings and worked it through their feathers with gloves which you can also do with the dust. Slowly the birds began to recover and get their feathers back in. I think if I hadn't treated with the permethrin when I did I probably would have lost some birds to the mites. The birds were in bad condition. Permethrin only kill live pests, not the pests eggs. I use the concentrate. For my initial application, I mixed it a little heavy. It did not affect the birds but I did keep them out of the coops while it dried. I spray my coops as needed and again when I spray I do weekly spraying for 3 or 4 weeks then stop as I don't want the pests to develop a resistance to the permethrin. Repeated weekly spraying is necessary because again, it does not kill the mite eggs and as an added benefit is there is no egg withdrawal period. The birds are beautiful again. There are other products available but much more expensive and in my opinion the permethrin works great. Good luck...

 

[Valair]

I have previously posted the best product to get rid of the mites in my opinion is permethrin which is very cost effective. I don't know if it is available where you live. I had some coops with some birds that were severely infested. I thought they were just molting but weren't getting their feathers back in when I discovered they were loaded with mites. The first thing I tried was DE. The birds weren't improving and still had mites. I first discovered them in one coop but then also found them on birds in another coop. I dusted the birds and the coops with the DE and no improvement after treating them for a couple of weeks. Next I did use some sevin dust that I had but it was almost gone but it did help. I did some research and came up with permethrin. I'm pretty sure the wild birds and rodents brought them in. I used the dust on the birds and in their nest boxes and sprayed inside of the coops, every crack and crevice, on and under the roosts, ceiling, walls, floors, anywhere the mites can hide. It's best to clean out the coop before you spray. I use pine shavings in my coops. I wear special clothing including a mask and gloves. I did a weekly spraying for 3/4 weeks and put permethrin dust in the nest boxes, originally sprayed the birds getting under the wings and worked it through their feathers with gloves which you can also do with the dust. Slowly the birds began to recover and get their feathers back in. I think if I hadn't treated with the permethrin when I did I probably would have lost some birds to the mites. The birds were in bad condition. Permethrin only kill live pests, not the pests eggs. I use the concentrate. For my initial application, I mixed it a little heavy. It did not affect the birds but I did keep them out of the coops while it dried. I spray my coops as needed and again when I spray I do weekly spraying for 3 or 4 weeks then stop as I don't want the pests to develop a resistance to the permethrin. Repeated weekly spraying is necessary because again, it does not kill the mite eggs and as an added benefit is there is no egg withdrawal period. The birds are beautiful again. There are other products available but much more expensive and in my opinion the permethrin works great. Good luck...

I have previously posted the best product to get rid of the mites in my opinion is permethrin which is very cost effective. I don't know if it is available where you live. I had some coops with some birds that were severely infested. I thought they were just molting but weren't getting their feathers back in when I discovered they were loaded with mites. The first thing I tried was DE. The birds weren't improving and still had mites. I first discovered them in one coop but then also found them on birds in another coop. I dusted the birds and the coops with the DE and no improvement after treating them for a couple of weeks. Next I did use some sevin dust that I had but it was almost gone but it did help. I did some research and came up with permethrin. I'm pretty sure the wild birds and rodents brought them in. I used the dust on the birds and in their nest boxes and sprayed inside of the coops, every crack and crevice, on and under the roosts, ceiling, walls, floors, anywhere the mites can hide. It's best to clean out the coop before you spray. I use pine shavings in my coops. I wear special clothing including a mask and gloves. I did a weekly spraying for 3/4 weeks and put permethrin dust in the nest boxes, originally sprayed the birds getting under the wings and worked it through their feathers with gloves which you can also do with the dust. Slowly the birds began to recover and get their feathers back in. I think if I hadn't treated with the permethrin when I did I probably would have lost some birds to the mites. The birds were in bad condition. Permethrin only kill live pests, not the pests eggs. I use the concentrate. For my initial application, I mixed it a little heavy. It did not affect the birds but I did keep them out of the coops while it dried. I spray my coops as needed and again when I spray I do weekly spraying for 3 or 4 weeks then stop as I don't want the pests to develop a resistance to the permethrin. Repeated weekly spraying is necessary because again, it does not kill the mite eggs and as an added benefit is there is no egg withdrawal period. The birds are beautiful again. There are other products available but much more expensive and in my opinion the permethrin works great. Good luck...

Thank you for your information ....I think I have won the war now. I used DE dust the pure one, and this week I used another treatment to the coop.....white industrial vinegar diluted into a spray bottle. And treated the ground with diluted bleach...and then rinsed well with the hose.
I changed my clothes when finished and showered...girls are grazing outside off the coops and their run area. while it all gets dry. They toddle off back to their enclose when the sun starts to go down......nasty mites and lice free.

 

[cmom]

I checked my rooster today for mites, and there was a huge red spot near his vent that I’m pretty sure is due to lice or mites. I’ve cleaned out the whole coop and the bedding, sprayed it down with poultry lice coop spray (including the roost), and mixed poultry dust with the bedding. I’ll dust them all when they come into the coop for the night, and I’m also going to get some DE and make a dusting box. Is there anything else I can do to help get rid of the mites and prevent them?

I have previously posted the best product to get rid of the mites in my opinion is permethrin which is very cost effective. I don't know if it is available where you live. I had some coops with some birds that were severely infested. I thought they were just molting but weren't getting their feathers back in when I discovered they were loaded with mites. The first thing I tried was DE. The birds weren't improving and still had mites. I first discovered them in one coop but then also found them on birds in another coop. I dusted the birds and the coops with the DE and no improvement after treating them for a couple of weeks. Next I did use some sevin dust that I had but it was almost gone but it did help. I did some research and came up with permethrin. I'm pretty sure the wild birds and rodents brought them in. I used the dust on the birds and in their nest boxes and sprayed inside of the coops, every crack and crevice, on and under the roosts, ceiling, walls, floors, anywhere the mites can hide. It's best to clean out the coop before you spray. I use pine shavings in my coops. I wear special clothing including a mask and gloves. I did a weekly spraying for 3/4 weeks and put permethrin dust in the nest boxes, originally sprayed the birds getting under the wings and worked it through their feathers with gloves which you can also do with the dust. Slowly the birds began to recover and get their feathers back in. I think if I hadn't treated with the permethrin when I did I probably would have lost some birds to the mites. The birds were in bad condition. Permethrin only kill live pests, not the pests eggs. I use the concentrate. For my initial application, I mixed it a little heavy. It did not affect the birds but I did keep them out of the coops while it dried. I spray my coops as needed and again when I spray I do weekly spraying for 3 or 4 weeks then stop as I don't want the pests to develop a resistance to the permethrin. Repeated weekly spraying is necessary because again, it does not kill the mite eggs and as an added benefit is there is no egg withdrawal period. The birds are beautiful again. There are other products available but much more expensive and in my opinion the permethrin works great. Good luck...