Help! Trying to Learn;

[Kiki]

I was told at the local feed store I shop at the most, not to use it on the chickens. I will start spraying it on the chickens today. The local feed store told me I should use SEVIN 5, on the chickens and spray Permethrin inside the coop and run.

Your bottle label even shows that it is labeled for use on chickens. I am sorry the feed store didn't give your correct information.

Mix a stronger strength for your coop and use 1.28 ounces per gallon for use on your birds.

 

[Kiki]

I was told at the local feed store I shop at the most, not to use it on the chickens. I will start spraying it on the chickens today. The local feed store told me I should use SEVIN 5, on the chickens and spray Permethrin inside the coop and run.

Sevin is not labeled for use on chickens.
Permethrin is.

 

[1muttsfan]

Welcome to BYC, and sorry you are having such trouble.

I agree that you need to treat the birds as well. As Kiki shows above, the dilution is greater for use on the birds than in the coop, so you will need 2 different diluted sprays. Sevin will also work on the birds for mites. DE is useless on hard-shelled parasites like mites.

Check around the coop for any bird nests - such as up under eaves - that might be harboring mites as well. The red mites are nasty little boogers.

 

[Baker1968]

Your label:
https://www.durvet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Permethrin-10-neogen-32oz-1017.pdf FOR YOUR COOP:
View attachment 1430579

I guess I am not using enough. When I purchase Permethrin at the local feed store, they told me to mix 1 Ounce to One Gallon of Water. They even make it a point to mark the Permethrin container with the amount to use. I am on my 4th bottle of Permethrin. I will mix it, so it is a stronger solution. I have been following the feed store employees advice, who has worked there over 20 years, thinking they would know, but now I know they really don’t know.

 

[Kiki]

I guess I am not using enough. When I purchase Permethrin at the local feed store, they told me to mix 1 Ounce to One Gallon of Water. They even make it a point to mark the Permethrin container with the amount to use. I am on my 4th bottle of Permethrin. I will mix it, so it is a stronger solution. I have been following the feed store employees advice, who has worked there over 20 years, thinking they would know, but now I know they really don’t know.

I'm sorry.
My local feed store employees are not educated either.

You might want to tell your feed store to READ the dang label at least once!
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

Drives me batty that they continue to see you buying bottle after bottle...

 

[Baker1968]

Welcome to BYC, and sorry you are having such trouble.

I agree that you need to treat the birds as well. As Kiki shows above, the dilution is greater for use on the birds than in the coop, so you will need 2 different diluted sprays. Sevin will also work on the birds for mites. DE is useless on hard-shelled parasites like mites.

Check around the coop for any bird nests - such as up under eaves - that might be harboring mites as well. The red mites are nasty little boogers.

The stronger solution for the birds, so should I still mix the 1 ounce to 1 gallon of water to spray the coop and run?

 

[Kiki]

Do you happen to be located in my city?

I would personally make it a point to inform them in person.

 

[Kiki]

The stronger solution for the birds, so should I still mix the 1 ounce to 1 gallon of water to spray the coop and run?

NO!
I think that poster got it mixed up...backwards.
BIRDS:

COOP:

Notice...
The "first" coop treatment is the highest.

 

[Baker1968]

I'm sorry.
My local feed store employees are not educated either.

You might want to tell your feed store to READ the dang label at least once!
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

Drives me batty that they continue to see you buying bottle after bottle...

I feel the same way. I should have read the label myself. I will educate the 20+ year veteran on my next visit.

 

[Baker1968]

NO!
I think that poster got it mixed up...backwards.
BIRDS:
View attachment 1430597

COOP:
View attachment 1430598
Notice...
The "first" coop treatment is the highest.

Okay, thank you! Higher concentration for the coop and run and the lower concentration for the birds. Thank you very much!