HELP! LICE!

[Button And Bongo]

If anyone remembers my disabled chicken button, you understand the struggle hopefully.

She isn't doing well, she has horrible lice, and I need help with it. It seems to make her not want to do anything and I don't understand what I am do to help. Everytime I hold her she just clings to me, like she's asking for help. Please? Advice!

 

[Got_The_Chick_Itch]

Sprinkle her with diatomaceous earth two times a day every day until it goes away.

 

[Below frigid]

Permethrin spray!

 

[cleoandtheflock]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @casportpony

 

[Wyorp Rock]

If anyone remembers my disabled chicken button, you understand the struggle hopefully.

She isn't doing well, she has horrible lice, and I need help with it. It seems to make her not want to do anything and I don't understand what I am do to help. Everytime I hold her she just clings to me, like she's asking for help. Please? Advice!

Is she still a house chicken?
If you can post some updated photos of her that would be great?
How did her leg turn out?
How old is she now?
Is she eating/drinking o.k. on her own or are you having to feed her daily?

For lice get a Permethrin based poultry spray or dust and treat her and her housing. Make sure to clean out all the current bedding and replace that. Repeat treatment in 7-10 day intervals.
You can find the dust/spray at Tractor Supply in a various forms any one of these will work.

 

[Goatcrazychickengirl]

Before dusting and changing bedding you should give her a good bath in warm water with an 1/8 cup of white vinegar and some dawn dish soap. Try to scrub out some of the lice. Make sure she is nice and dry, then dust, if you dont have dust yet lightly apply some white vinegar to the worst spots, even the vent if it is there. Then place her in clean dry bedding with new food and water. For keeping the new bedding clean you can also apply the distilled white vinegar or poultry and garden dust if you have some.

 

[Goatcrazychickengirl]

Chicken lice isn't a huge deal, it is somthing that can happen, but if it goes untreated it can become a huge problem, also keep her quarantined from the other chickens until it is gone or it will spread. Hang in there!

 

[SurferchickinSB]

I like Elector PSP, you can spray it on the chickens and inside your coop. The bottle seems expensive, but a little bit goes a long way and it will last you a very long time.

 

[Rammy]

Is she still a house chicken?
If you can post some updated photos of her that would be great?
How did her leg turn out?
How old is she now?
Is she eating/drinking o.k. on her own or are you having to feed her daily?

For lice get a Permethrin based poultry spray or dust and treat her and her housing. Make sure to clean out all the current bedding and replace that. Repeat treatment in 7-10 day intervals.
You can find the dust/spray at Tractor Supply in a various forms any one of these will work.



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Thats what I did when I had a lice problem. Hosed the coop down twice with the pymethrin and dusted every hen with poultry dust and sevin dust. Took me a month to get rid of those little suckers.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

If the chick is sick - not doing well as described by the OP (waiting on more information about that) then bathing may not be ideal since it can put some over the edge.
Evaluation of the chick to determine if they are healthy/stable enough to endure bathing would be needed - each situation is a little different.