How to get rid of mites and lice FOR GOOD?

[casportpony]

Also what about wood ash? I have read about it.

Fine for them to dust bathe in, but you need a proper pesticide to treat the birds and their coop. Lice & mites can kill your birds.

 

[casportpony]

Tempo Spray inside AND outside the the entire chicken houses. I'd move the birds out to another place for 10 days. Then spray inside and outside the coop, to the point of runoff.

Somebody tell them how to use Ivermectin. The birds are probably loaded with parasites too, and wouldn't Ivermectin kill most internal parasites too?

Tempo is great stuff, I use it for flies, but I don't think it's labeled for use on poultry.

I use ivermectin for lice, and I think it might treat large roundworms, maybe decal worms, but it will not treat capillary worms.

If you're going to give ivermectin it needs to be given based on the bird's weight.

1% ivermectin
Give 0.05 ml per pound of bodyweight orally. (0.25 ml per five pounds).

0.05% ivermectin (pour-on)
Give 0.1 ml per pound of bodyweight topically on the skin (0.5 ml per five pounds).

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Tempo is great stuff, I use it for flies, but I don't think it's labeled for use on poultry.

I use ivermectin for lice, and I think it might treat large roundworms, maybe decal worms, but it will not treat capillary worms.

If you're going to give ivermectin it needs to be given based on the bird's weight.

1% ivermectin
Give 0.05 ml per pound of bodyweight orally. (0.25 ml per five pounds).

0.05% ivermectin (pour-on)
Give 0.1 ml per pound of bodyweight topically on the skin (0.5 ml per five pounds).

What if all your birds weight is different?

 

[casportpony]

What if all your birds weight is different?

Each one gets a different amount. Since this has been going on for a long time, now might be a good opportunity to catch each one, thoroughly examine them, and get a baseline weight on them. While caught, treat each one with permethrin dust or spray.

 

[aart]

Just get the permethrin and be done with it.

 

[Matejka]

Permethrin is your friend. Use it! Too excess then use more. Spray your birds, or better yet, mix permethrin in a bucket and dip each bird.

 

[casportpony]

@turkey girl 0964, have you treated with the permethrin yet?

 

[MickWithChicks]

FLURALANER.

Divide up a single cat/dog spot on Bravecto treatment. Using a 1ml oral syringe, apply 0.05ml to the back of each chickens neck. Your mite problem will be solved.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

@turkey girl 0964, have you treated with the permethrin yet?

Not yet we are waiting on a monsoon or a cooler day we aren't using permethrin, butchering the hens or cleaning out the coop in 115 degree weather.

 

[turkey girl 0964]

We are going to get rid of the old ugly hens and keeping our younger prettier hens.