Is there anything else except Sevin Dust?

[Eggdrop]

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I apologize for disturbing the original thread but can you tell me how you dose your dogs?

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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If the active ingredient is the same as Sevin then it will not be available to Chick-a-dee -- virtually all OTC pesticides, other than 'natural' relatively nontoxic things like agricultural vinegar, are banned in Ontario (dunno bout elsewhere in Canada)

Wild birds would be the usual source of mites in a chicken flock, unless your run is so completely hardwarecloth-enclosed that there is nowhere a wee sparrow can wedge itself through. My biggest mite problems have been when I had hens in the tractor and a giant flock of starlings had just moved through the yard (you know how they get in late summer, very scary

) and I am quite sure that what was happening was that a buncha mites fell off or jumped ship from the hordes of starlings and then found a nice warm chicken to snuggle up to.

GOod luck,

Pat

Ohh those starlings are terrifying aren't they? You know I have a pigeon pair living in the barn above the hay, entirely possible a few of their mites abandonned ship onto my hay pile and since I used hay in the nest boxes over the winter, they got to snuggle up nice and close to wee hen botties. I'm switching to straw only because the goat house will be bedded with straw.

You know it's funny because the Dri-Kil is AWFUL stuff, I picked some up today and is so poisonous that you have to cover right up while applying.

I really should have picked up some Sevin the month before the ban went into place, it was half price at the Co-op

 

[dancingbear]

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I apologize for disturbing the original thread but can you tell me how you dose your dogs?

1/10 cc (same as a ml) per 10 lbs. of body weight. So my 90lb. sheepdog get just under a full cc, the 50lb. lab mix gets 1/2 cc, etc. For really small dogs you can dilute it to make the measuring easier.

I only give it orally, mixed with a little food, left over gravy, or whatever they gulp right down.