- Jan 7, 2011
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I got this chicken from my neighbors house because she's old and he keeps her in a barn all day long so I figure why not take her and give her a nice life with a chance to get outside and eat hearty bugs and stuff. When we went to pick her up my boyfriend was holding her and a couple minutes later these tiny bugs were crawling all of him! Yuck! So we went to a feed store and picked up this dust powder called Garden Poultry Dust with Permethrin. I held her upside down by her feet and dusted her the best I could, this was yesterday.
I am keeping her quarantine from my folk because I do not want to infest them with this nasty bug. Tomorrow I am going to put a litter box filled with wood ashes because I heard chickens will dust bathe in it and sinse the ashes are so tough they will scratch and kill the lice.
Any ideas on how long I will have to keep her away from my flock? Is there anything else I could do to help speed up getting rid of this discusting bug?? It's gotten so bad that her comb isn't red anymore it's like barely pink almost white...
I am keeping her quarantine from my folk because I do not want to infest them with this nasty bug. Tomorrow I am going to put a litter box filled with wood ashes because I heard chickens will dust bathe in it and sinse the ashes are so tough they will scratch and kill the lice.
Any ideas on how long I will have to keep her away from my flock? Is there anything else I could do to help speed up getting rid of this discusting bug?? It's gotten so bad that her comb isn't red anymore it's like barely pink almost white...