Help identifying this sickness. Lost one last night, more sick..

[tfpets]

I'm not sure about the yorkie?? Can you ask your vet? Hopefully a poultry bug is a poultry bug, but I imagine the treatment would be the same, a pyrethin laced shampoo/bath.

(And if your Yorkie is anything like mine, water is the same as poison and you're just trying to kill it by giving it a bath anyhow, why not use a precautionary pet safe bug treatment just in case?)

I worry about the spray on the chicks cause of the cold and their being so weak....even a chill could take them now...and getting wet with the spray may chill them easily..this could very well be what kills them, also the chemical will penetrate the skin more readily this way...and they are so weak...poor babies!! If you do use that, maybe only use it on one. If it has seizures within about 15 minutes, dont use it on any more....it could kill all of them!

Powder is all I've used or known to use on Poultry? Indoor birds use sprays though, hmmm. They're different species, I'd have to research it.

Take it easy, I'll keep checking in...

Tina

 

[CA Bean]

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Oh darn! That was what i thought too about the spray, being that it could be so potent and absorbed through the skin easily and poison them, since they are weak and young. Well I will go to a different store and get the powder tomorrow... As far as my Yorkie..I love her to death but boy is she a little booger rascal when she gets around the chickens! But soon the other ones outside are gonna be much much bigger than her-Muwahaha ( evil laugh) lol.

 

[mypicklebird]

Pet store might have pyrethrin 'flea' powder (which is the ingredient in poultry dust) but I do not know if the concentration is the same. Most pet stores are moving away from the old fashioned pyrethrin and permethrin based insecticide powder/bombs/spot ons and sprays as better & safer things are out there for our pets. I use pyrethins on my chickens, but would not touch them with a 10 ft pole for my cats.

Go to a feed store, they will have poulty dust. Pet stores don't usually carry chicken stuff (or goat/sheep/turkey), as most people don't think of them as pets, but farm animals. If you have an extra special pet store, maybe they might have a horse section!

If it is safe for a canary or a budgie (mite spray) it is probably safe for a chicken, but I would still stick with the properly labeled item if you can get it. Time is of the essence.

 

[CA Bean]

Ok just an update: I got the permectrin powder and used on the little guys a couple nights ago. I was absolutely horrified!!! The mites were all over-soooo disgusting!!! The worse one of them all was this poor little only blk silkie...maybe because the type of feathers or ??or it was the original source..? but this little guy was soo covered and under by his vent was the the the worst. There must have been a thousand per 1/4 inch. Poor guy then we put a paper towel down and I could see all these mites on them. Utterly gross. I am freaked about my big ones outside ever getting mites..I think this weekend we are gonna dust them with DE( fd grd) again. I did it 2 weeks ago but I never want to go through mites again. Anyhow still watching them to see if this is why they were so sleepy/sick looking. Will update again. Thanks all.

 

[tfpets]

Good luck with this. I hope you are supplementing them with Poultry drench or vitamins and electrolytes, or polyvisol, or something. This sounds so bad it may just kill em any how, how awful for them and you!
Poor babies! I wonder if there isnt someplace that the feedstore or whoever should be reported to? That just doesnt seem right? Maybe call the Animal Control and ask, they may need to be inspected. Thats cruel to the rest of the little ones that got left behind at that place!
Oh, I sure wish you the best! Take care of yourself and your little ones!
Keep us posted!
Tina/tfpets