Does any one use ivermectin in chickens ?

[muddyfeathers]

Kathy you must live near a nuclear power plant and have some sort of mutated critters

Do you remember the brand(s) of DE you've tried? Could it be the difference between the food grade and agricultural grade?

DE has worked wonderfully for me for years in the garden and it was no less effective at killing the red mites that were in the floor of the coop. The floor of my breeding pens are above waist level so it's easy to see any bugs crawling around in the shavings. When I noticed that the little nasties were mites I decided to sprinkle some DE in the nest boxes and directly on top of the shavings. The next day the mites were still there but mostly dead. The ones that were still moving most definitely weren't moving as fast as the day before. I assume they were either already cut up from the DE and in the process of drying out or they possibly realized that there was no way off the little piece of pine shaving they were clinging to

I'm the "see it to believe it" type and I have no doubts about the effectiveness of DE ... except on squash bugs

 

[muddyfeathers]

That's good then. Ive got no sign of any Mites after going berserk a week or 2 ago. They are all terminated , ha ha. You can see a picture of my Milli and she was riddled with them but the Ivermectin stopped that! She looks great!

My Mrs who is a Lecturer in Engineering at our local University has looked at the problem from a different angle and has come up with the idea of covering all the walls in the coop with large sheets of sellotape. It will cover all the cracks and make it difficult for the mites to walk up and down the walls. Shes going to make inquiries to find a material that may even stop the critters from coming any where near the hen houses. There must be some thing with Diatom properties some where!

I'm OK know until May 2015 so until next year I will just for the sake of it use Ivermectin and the DE sprinkled in an ash bath the same as you are.

Ive got the microscope set up but no mites to view and record so I could show how the Ivermectin, Dm, and

Permethrin​

works!

All the best to you and yours..

I would think a wall of stickiness wouldn't go over so well in a chicken coop..hahaha

Here's what I got to put in all the cracks... Tanglefoot Bird Repellent
I got 2 of the caulking tubes off of ebay for a good price and I can't think of a better choice for mite prevention. I'm trying some of the cracks with duct tape and then this on top, but mostly I just caulked the cracks. I'm hopeful that it won't soak into the wood for at least a year but time will tell. The manufacturer recommends that if the surface your applying it to is porous, it should be sealed or painted, or put some tape down to prevent it from permeating.

As for the lice, I picked up some poultry protector concentrate today and I'll be dipping the birds. I prefer the lice to die sooner rather than later. I've made their new dusting spot and provided it's kept up with ash and DE, I'm hopeful that will keep their population to a minimum. I've never had these problems before and really didn't know that I should be taking precautions to keep it that way...live and learn!

Good luck to you as well

 

[guard41]

Do you know what will kill them and stop them, old fashioned creosote!

I can remember my grandad doing his hen houses with it in the 1970s and he never had red mite or anything else. It stank like mad!

Unfortunately the EU have banned it in GB in 2003 but I heard Farmers can still buy it from somewhere but the creosote sold in DIY stores today is not the same as the pre-2003 formula. I rang the makers of Jeyes-Fluid .

 

[casportpony]

Kathy you must live near a nuclear power plant and have some sort of mutated critters

Do you remember the brand(s) of DE you've tried? Could it be the difference between the food grade and agricultural grade?

DE has worked wonderfully for me for years in the garden and it was no less effective at killing the red mites that were in the floor of the coop. The floor of my breeding pens are above waist level so it's easy to see any bugs crawling around in the shavings. When I noticed that the little nasties were mites I decided to sprinkle some DE in the nest boxes and directly on top of the shavings. The next day the mites were still there but mostly dead. The ones that were still moving most definitely weren't moving as fast as the day before. I assume they were either already cut up from the DE and in the process of drying out or they possibly realized that there was no way off the little piece of pine shaving they were clinging to

I'm the "see it to believe it" type and I have no doubts about the effectiveness of DE ... except on squash bugs

We bought a huge bag of the food grade DE (don't remember brand), put it everywhere in the coop, in all their dust bathing spots and also dusted each bird with it. It had no effect on lice.

-Kathy

 

[muddyfeathers]

This morning I started to de-lice the birds with Poultry Protector, using it as a dip. From what I saw a week ago while treating the birds for mites using ivermectin, I would guess there were around 500-1,000 lice per bird. Well I just dipped a half dozen birds from different pens and cannot find any sign of lice this morning...nada..none
While researching poultry lice I found plenty of apparent beliefs from the not too distant past that stated Ivermectin would kill lice, however the present view seems to be that it will not. You can probably guess what my current belief is

And yes they were lice...


Alright detectives, let's hear some "theory's".

 

[ruthless]

I always use Ivermection pour on dropped on neck and under wings for LICE or MITES. Always has killed the bugs on the birds.

 

[muddyfeathers]

Your not too far from me, I'm wondering about the possibilities of it being a regional thing ???

 

[K Epp]

It works for me too. I've only had chickens for a couple of years so maybe ours haven't built up immunity to it.

 

[casportpony]

It doesn't kill poultry lice. I bought a whole bottle, tried it two or three times on a few different birds, in a few different ways and it had zero effect on poultry lice. People, please save your money and buy a poultry dust and a proper wormer like Safeguard or Valbazen, that will save you money *and* keep keep your birds healthier.

-Kathy

 

[muddyfeathers]

Kathy, what do you believe happened to my lice?

And I wasn't using the ivermectin as a wormer.