LICE AGAIN!!!!!!

[ButtonquailGirl14]

hey guys...….I am insanely frusterated right now because my peach has lice... I already got rid of it once and I have only had chickens since may...WHY my neighbors chickens ore the problem! they have around 100 chickens (way too many to count) and they are all infested! they do not care, so my chicks that are always in the run are getting it because their chickens are constantly on our property!!! I am hoping you can help me find a solution to this. and I do not want to use DE due to respiratory issues, so how would you treat?? I would prefer something natural, but will do whatever it takes to get rid of it, my only worry is that it will come right back due to the neighbors

 

[Kiki]

What did you use to treat last time?
Did you also treat your coop and retreat both the birds and the coop a second time?

You need to invest a few dollars in somme permethrin spray.
Treat ALL birds and coop and retreat everything in 7 to 10 days.

Martin's PERMETHRIN spray

• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018
• 6
• flies lice mites permethrin

Martin's Horse & Stable Permethrin Spray

• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018
• flies lice mites permethrin

Permethrin

 

[Folly's place]

Lice are the least of it! Your neighbor's birds need to stay home, as do yours.
I've been very lucky to have no near neighbors with chickens, especially roaming flocks like this.
Have you talked to them about this? If it's possible to have a polite conversation and resolve these issues, that would be great.
Otherwise, it's about fencing, probably on you.
Here at TSC, Gordon's permethrin spray concentrate costs about $7 for 8oz, enough for a lifetime of spraying your birds, and maybe theirs too. At night, while the birds are roosting, it goes fast.
You still need fencing, or higher fencing, or electric fencing, or something.
Mary

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Lice are the least of it! Your neighbor's birds need to stay home, as do yours.
I've been very lucky to have no near neighbors with chickens, especially roaming flocks like this.
Have you talked to them about this? If it's possible to have a polite conversation and resolve these issues, that would be great.
Otherwise, it's about fencing, probably on you.
Here at TSC, Gordon's permethrin spray concentrate costs about $7 for 8oz, enough for a lifetime of spraying your birds, and maybe theirs too. At night, while the birds are roosting, it goes fast.
You still need fencing, or higher fencing, or electric fencing, or something.
Mary

thanks! let me answer you questions, A: my birds are in a completely secure covered run all the time, so my birds are not the problem. I have talked very politely to them about it and they are my friends, but they were Extremely defensive and refused to admit their birds had lice and said that they are free range and that is how they feed them. #3 I already have it fenced like I said above, but their chickens come right up to my fence. so I really don't know what to do. Thanks! I will definatley order some of that spray!

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

What did you use to treat last time?
Did you also treat your coop and retreat both the birds and the coop a second time?

You need to invest a few dollars in somme permethrin spray.
Treat ALL birds and coop and retreat everything in 7 to 10 days.

Martin's PERMETHRIN spray

• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018
• 6
• flies lice mites permethrin

Martin's Horse & Stable Permethrin Spray

• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018
• flies lice mites permethrin

Permethrin

I treated it with some DE, but I only treated the bird that got it a second time, and shortly after a learned that it can cause respiratory issues so I bathed my birds and the coop to prevent any respiratory issues. the neighbors birds just come right up to my enclose.

 

[Chickassan]

I'd be tempted to do some neighborly delouseing but 100 birds is a whole lotta lice.

 

[trudyg]

Temporary fix, but could you use those fence posts that you push into the ground with your foot and put a fence of chicken wire/bird netting about 4 feet away from your current fence? Anything to keep the interlopers a safe distance away from your birds. Then you could treat your birds and at least not have to worry about re-infection.

 

[Kiki]

I treated it with some DE, but I only treated the bird that got it a second time, and shortly after a learned that it can cause respiratory issues so I bathed my birds and the coop to prevent any respiratory issues. the neighbors birds just come right up to my enclose.

Three problems.
1. DE won't work to kill off a lice infestation.
If you can actually see lice on your birds you have an infestation.
2. You just scared the lice off the one bird and onto the others. You must treat everyone at the same time.
3. You didn't retreat to kill the freshly hatched lice before they got to egg laying age which means you need to retreat everything 2 more times.


Get some permethrin.

 

[Folly's place]

Having their birds on your property to feed them?!? WOW! Chickens need to be fed, and stay home. If they truly don't have food out for their birds, it's animal abuse, and 'getting defensive' about this situation doesn't sound at all good.
How about fencing along your property line? It won't make friends, but if they aren't feeding, report them.
Good luck, Mary

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I'd be tempted to do some neighborly delouseing but 100 birds is a whole lotta lice.

I know, especially when they don't have enough coop(s) space so a lot of them sleep in crabapple trees!! I already offered to help treat some of their chickens with terrible leg mites, but they refused to let me because they (quote on quote) "Don't have them"

Temporary fix, but could you use those fence posts that you push into the ground with your foot and put a fence of chicken wire/bird netting about 4 feet away from your current fence? Anything to keep the interlopers a safe distance away from your birds. Then you could treat your birds and at least not have to worry about re-infection.

That is a great idea!