How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[NickyKnack]

4/5

 

[karenerwin]

Heat absolutely kills lice in human scalp/hair....blow dryer to 165 degree daily....sterilization of nits occurs, so they stop multiplying. Bleach bath for mites.
Haven't tried on chickens....bedding would need to be changed to course sand...as wood chips might be harboring bugs.
Might have to treat a.... cats, dogs, (mice or rodents , hahaha)carring bugs among chicks. I'd confine until source stopped.
Hope this helps.

That's what I had initially thought about the other critters (dogs, mice...) but all my research says that chicken lice are species specific and won't go to dogs, mice or people. Definitely will travel between wild birds & chickens (probably how they got them). I've been using the blow dryer on them after their bath, but it doesn't appear to be helping, but maybe it is.

 

[karenerwin]

6 eggs today. Make that 7 eggs today.

 

[TJordan]

That's what I had initially thought about the other critters (dogs, mice...) but all my research says that chicken lice are species specific and won't go to dogs, mice or people.  Definitely will travel between wild birds & chickens (probably how they got them).  I've been using the blow dryer on them after their bath, but it doesn't appear to be helping, but maybe it is.

Plain old wood ash.... Set up a dust bath area with a kiddy pool with wood ash... Fine please. Grab a few handfuls from the fire pit or wood burning grill. Make sure it's clean ash. It kills mites and chicken lice.

 

[tnbyc9]

6/15

 

[karenerwin]

Plain old wood ash.... Set up a dust bath area with a kiddy pool with wood ash... Fine please. Grab a few handfuls from the fire pit or wood burning grill. Make sure it's clean ash. It kills mites and chicken lice.

I actually tried that first! A few months ago I butchered an older hen that had moved herself into that coop with the cockerel & pullet. The old girl had lice, but I couldn't catch the other 2 birds without crawling into the pen on my belly throw the dirt. I remembered reading about how wood ash kills lice & mites. So I gathered a bunch of downed limbs and trees from our woods and burned it all, waited a couple of days to make sure it was out & not hot. Then I shoveled it into the coop. I did that twice. I never did see either bird dust bathe in the ashes or the dirt. I burned another fire pit full of wood and once it had cooled I put it into a large diameter bowl ( think oil collection bowl). I still never saw them in the ashes at all. So I decided to throw food pellets in on top of the ashes so they would HAVE TO get in the ashes. That worked a little, but I still never saw them actually bathe in it. At that time I really did not know for sure that they had lice, I just figured it was almost guaranteed since the older bird in with them did.
It wasn't until we had very cold temps combined with high winds that blew the wind barrier ( tarp) off part of the enclosure at night & allowed the cockerel to get frost bitten really badly, that I found out for sure that they had lice. Yes, I ended up crawling on my belly and squeezing through a small opening ( could barely get my shoulders through) to get inside the enclosure so that I could catch them. Since they both had lice & none of the other birds/coops do, I had to move them somewhere where they wouldn't "share". Unfortunately, that ended up being a very large (75 gallon) aquarium in the spare bedroom. They have been there for over a month now.

 

[AuntNomi]

7/8 from the Cowboy Coop
and 1/8 from the Fox & the Hound Coop

 

[ToddQ]

Got a nice even dozen today, a few less than normal but all nice big beautiful eggs. **** I love my girls!

 

[gander007]

Tuesday



5 eggs



2 eggs from the control group

3 eggs from the free range chickens

Temp 57F degrees and calm wings just a nice day out

 

[gander007]

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