(Hopefully dawg will see this and respond. Heard they are the go-to for these things.)
This post contains two stories that merge into one. Sorry in advance if this causes confusion.
Picked up 3 new hens from a lady yesterday. Did some reading and decided they should be dewormed and treated for mites prior to introducing them to my existing flock.
Three weeks ago my 23 week old amercauna Pullet started laying. Wonderful little blue eggs. One every other day. Then a week later crashed hard. Very sick. Cause was unknown, but symptoms led to either Mericks or wry neck.
Nursed her back to health, and reintroduced her back to the flock about a week ago. Has been doing great since. But she has been really grooming herself a lot. Didn't think much of it because she had a lot of stuck on food from being in ICU.
Yesterday I dusted the new chickens and the coop/run with Sevin dust. Today I apply ivermectin pour on for worming, and mites that I may have missed. Since I had time, decided to do original flock as well.
Treated amercauna first, because she's easiest to catch. Spent about 20 mins catching and treating others. Then amercauna started spazzing out. Doing circles like a dog chasing its tail.
So I picked her up to see what she was going after. Low an behold mites!!!!! Look like red or skin mites. I had repeatedly checked when she was sick, and never saw any.
Hoped on BYC and did some research on mites, symptoms, treatments, etc. Found that all her symptoms from being sick could have been from mites.
(if your still with me, thank you, and here is the question.)
So now all birds have been ivermectin'ed, and 4 of the 7 Sevin dusted. Tomorrow I plan to set up a dust bath area in the run with DE, as well as pull out all the shavings in the coop, and treat the coop floor with both Sevin dust and DE. (it has carpet on the floor, old deer hunting blind. ) also will be doing a much closer mite inspection on the others in the excising flock.
Can I/should I do anything else? Withdrawal time for eggs because of the ivermec?
This post contains two stories that merge into one. Sorry in advance if this causes confusion.
Picked up 3 new hens from a lady yesterday. Did some reading and decided they should be dewormed and treated for mites prior to introducing them to my existing flock.
Three weeks ago my 23 week old amercauna Pullet started laying. Wonderful little blue eggs. One every other day. Then a week later crashed hard. Very sick. Cause was unknown, but symptoms led to either Mericks or wry neck.
Nursed her back to health, and reintroduced her back to the flock about a week ago. Has been doing great since. But she has been really grooming herself a lot. Didn't think much of it because she had a lot of stuck on food from being in ICU.
Yesterday I dusted the new chickens and the coop/run with Sevin dust. Today I apply ivermectin pour on for worming, and mites that I may have missed. Since I had time, decided to do original flock as well.
Treated amercauna first, because she's easiest to catch. Spent about 20 mins catching and treating others. Then amercauna started spazzing out. Doing circles like a dog chasing its tail.
So I picked her up to see what she was going after. Low an behold mites!!!!! Look like red or skin mites. I had repeatedly checked when she was sick, and never saw any.
Hoped on BYC and did some research on mites, symptoms, treatments, etc. Found that all her symptoms from being sick could have been from mites.
(if your still with me, thank you, and here is the question.)
So now all birds have been ivermectin'ed, and 4 of the 7 Sevin dusted. Tomorrow I plan to set up a dust bath area in the run with DE, as well as pull out all the shavings in the coop, and treat the coop floor with both Sevin dust and DE. (it has carpet on the floor, old deer hunting blind. ) also will be doing a much closer mite inspection on the others in the excising flock.
Can I/should I do anything else? Withdrawal time for eggs because of the ivermec?
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