HELP PLEASE

[Rooster lover 98]

my chicken has so many bugs under her feathers and I do not know what it is and im worried that it will kill my chicken

 

[chicmom]

It's probably lice. Chickens can get that from wild birds. You can buy poultry dust and powder up your chicken with it. You'll also have to clean out her coop very very well, and powder that up too. And in 10 days, you'll have to repeat, in order to kill the baby lice that hatched from the eggs.

 

[red horse ranch]

Get some Sevin garden dust (rotenone) and thoroughly coat under her feathers. It will kill the bugs but not harm her.

 

[Eggcessive]

Where on the chicken are you mostly seeing the bugs? It could be lice or mites. Lice usually affect the area under the vent, but some will also be around the neck or under wings. They leave clumps of white to grey eggs at the base of feathers. Permethrin garden dust or the 10% spray is very good to treat for lice or mites. Lice need treating at 10 day intervals, at least twice to get first the lice, and then the newly hatched ones before they reproduce. The coop, nests all need to be completely emptied of bedding, and treated as well as the roosts with permethrin spray. I would get a bottle of the permethrin 10% concentrate, and follow mixing instructions for both chickens and coop treatment. If it is cold, use the dust on the chickens. Here is a good link to read with pictures and other treatments:
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html

lice eggs

 

[AllenK RGV]

Get some Sevin garden dust (rotenone) and thoroughly coat under her feathers. It will kill the bugs but not harm her.

I'm probably wrong here and correct me if I am, Sevin dust I thought I had read it isn't FDA approved in commercial operations for chicken?

Edit- I wanted to post some source materials to support my question. from Scientific American with additional sourcing hyperlinked within:
"Take the example of Rotenone. Rotenone was widely used in the US as an organic pesticide for decades 3. Because it is natural in origin, occurring in the roots and stems of a small number of subtropical plants, it was considered "safe" as well as "organic". However, research has shown that rotenone is highly dangerous because it kills by attacking mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of all living cells. Research found that exposure to rotenone caused Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms in rats 4, and had the potential to kill many species, including humans."

Available here:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/

Current US and EU regulatory status for Rotenone:
https://hygeia-analytics.com/2017/01/04/rotenone-use-in-organic-farming/

 

[Rooster lover 98]

Where do you get that dust at