DE failed...sevin dust next. Correct procedure?

[Jeffross1968]

Well, some of our birds are just horribly infected with lice/mites, basically from face to vent. All of them seem to have at least a few, but some are just horrible. Just handled my little EE who started laying a couple weeks ago, and has stopped, probably for this reason. She had at least a hundred crawling around on her face, and the base of the feathers around her vent were completely encrusted with eggs. We bathed her and for now, put neem oil around her vent and rubbed some into her feathers, and we'll be doing a neem oil spray on all the roosts. But sevin dust is our next plan of attack, and would like to know the best way to get them all.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

 

[seminolewind]

Hi, DE does not kill lice and mites. When they go to bed for the night, put a plastic bag on your hand, and grab some Sevin, and sprinkle them and fluff it in. As the chicken moves, the sevin dust will migrate downward, so I don't worry about getting it underneath them. You may want to slap a bit on their vent area. You may also want to sprinkle some in their laying nests. That's what I do and it works. But you have to follow up 2 weeks (?) later and kill the newly hatched ones.

I do all 40 of my chickens that way, in the dark with a flashlight, LOL

 

[dawg53]

Another option is to put alot of sevin dust in a pillow case. Put the chicken in the pillow case with its neck/head sticking out the top, hold onto her neck with your hand. Then gently shake and bake. Then put some of the dust on your fingers and rub it into her neck feathers and around her head, avoid the eyes and nostrils. Release the hen and she'll shake herself off and go about her business. Repeat again in 7-10 days to kill nits hatched from eggs. Any later than 10 days, the larva become adults and reproduce, then you'd have to redust twice more. Redusting no later than the tenth day ends their lifecycle.
Dust inside the coop, nests and roosts, repeat again in 10 days. Wear a mask, old chicken clothes and shoes when you dust them.

 

[seminolewind]

Another option is to put alot of sevin dust in a pillow case. Put the chicken in the pillow case with its neck/head sticking out the top, hold onto her neck with your hand. Then gently shake and bake. Then put some of the dust on your fingers and rub it into her neck feathers and around her head, avoid the eyes and nostrils. Release the hen and she'll shake herself off and go about her business. Repeat again in 7-10 days to kill nits hatched from eggs. Any later than 10 days, the larva become adults and reproduce, then you'd have to redust twice more. Redusting no later than the tenth day ends their lifecycle.
Dust inside the coop, nests and roosts, repeat again in 10 days. Wear a mask, old chicken clothes and shoes when you dust them.

Your way might be better, but mine's faster!

 

[dawg53]

Your way might be better, but mine's faster!

I like getting dusty!!

 

[seminolewind]

Well , at least you'll be lice free!