EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[chicken hawk 33]

I wish I could find someone local with seramahs

 

[chicken hawk 33]

O my God it's not mites it's poultry lice

 

[BantyChooks]

I wish I could find someone local with seramahs

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"

 

[BantyChooks]

O my it's not mites it's poultry lice

Good! That's much better.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Good! That's much better.

Um it's all over even my silkies the have been in cages of the ground.and also I think they have the mites course some have scales popping up on legs and some have sores

 

[casportpony]

O my God it's not mites it's poultry lice

Treatment is the same for mites and lice. Get some permethrin spray!

-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Pity I don't have a bator.

Dan!!! you DO have a bator!!!! Banti made one too!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Um it's all over even my silkies the have been in cages of the ground.and also I think they have the mites course some have scales popping up on legs and some have sores

Off the ground aint gonna stop lice.... And it sounds like you're describing scaly leg mites.
What do you mean by sores?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Treatment is the same for mites and lice. Get some permethrin spray!

-Kathy

we are my mom said we are gonna do whatever we have to to get rid of it.is that maybe why my hens aren't laying because we have about 50 hens and we are only getting 1 to 5 eggs a day

 

[casportpony]

Good! That's much better.

Um it's all over even my silkies the have been in cages of the ground.and also I think they have the mites course some have scales popping up on legs and some have sores

They can have many types of mites and lce at the same time. Go get the permethrin spray and treat all before you have a serious problem.

-Kathy