Ducks with fleas

[dennin7418]

My ducks seem to have a flea problem...they are all over their bedding. Is this common and just comes with the territory or is there a way to treat for this?
Thanks!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Are you sure they are fleas and not mites or something else? Fleas and ticks run rampant here in FL and never had fleas move into the bedding of the ducks.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

We use this: http://www.amazon.com/ExciteR-Pyrethrin-Insecticide-Concentrate-Mosquitoes/dp/B005CT9IDO for most pest control. Shop around, we can get it locally so no shipping charges.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds like mites, are they blk and tiny like pepper flakes?

 

[littlecollier]

Resurrecting this thread ... I came home from being gone for 36 hours and noticed what look like fleas in the ducks bedding! I have never seen anything like this and I don’t know what to do! I’m horrified!

@Miss Lydia, Do you have any suggestions? The bugs I’m seeing look like fruit flies (and I thought that’s what they were at first) until I realized they were darker in color and weren’t really flying but hopping around.

 

[casportpony]

If you squish one under your nail does it pop like cat/dog fleas do?

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Resurrecting this thread ... I came home from being gone for 36 hours and noticed what look like fleas in the ducks bedding! I have never seen anything like this and I don’t know what to do! I’m horrified!

@Miss Lydia, Do you have any suggestions? The bugs I’m seeing look like fruit flies (and I thought that’s what they were at first) until I realized they were darker in color and weren’t really flying but hopping around.

Those look like gnats. Gnats are attracted to moisture and of course poo. I had them all over the duck house - I sprayed it with a natural product and it worked. We have had a lot of rain lately.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/gnats-in-the-duck-house-but-not-the-chicken-coop.1254784/

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I posted the thread, because I put pics of the product there. That has a soap in it as well as other stuff, but it killed the gnats on contact.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've used this for years Good stuff.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

The other stuff is very similar and I got it at tsc But, like what you would spray on plants to keep mites and such off, it contains soap to coat and smother them.
I have both. I just used the pure planet poultry spray and it worked on contact.