Lice? human shampoo??? *help please!*

[Mitzi&I]

Thanks for all the replies. IT WORKED! she is completely lice free! except she looks like a rat, because no matter how hard I try the oil wont leave her feather. So tomorrow I guess I will need to bath again...ugh! I am worried she is going to get a cold from all these baths. But on the other hand I don't want her to ingest oil or get a chill from the oily feathers. I think dawn soap is the only thing that will get that oil out.

The eggs. I don't know that I want to cut them out, wont those feathers bleed? I will take that comb that came with the lice shampoo though and try to take out as many as I can. I will go outside of the city this week and pick up some ACTUAL bird lice treatment (whether it be sevin, poultry dust, frontline, etc). But for now. NO LICE!

thanks everyone! (I went back to the stores today, they all told me that lice treatment and sevin and such have been removed from their stock due to over usage....) I will have to travel farther to get it I guess.

i just put a tiny squirt of ivermectin on her neck...not too much. It wasn't my own bottle though, it was the ladies I bought my bird from, I need to pick up some of my own! haha

what is frontline? Where can I get it?

I wonder where I can get coconut oil?

I DO NOT want to deal with the human shampoo for the second treatment. Although it worked it was EXPENSIVE! I had to use the entire bottle and the oil will NOT come out. Plus it can't be healthy.

 

[welasharon]

I found the coconut oil at a health food store.
Sharon

 

[Mitzi&I]

Alright, great thanks, I will take a look!

Should I be worried....she just drank a lot of water and when I picked her up a bunch of water fell out of her mouth....

Kinda freaked out, is she ok?

 

[dianaross77]

Mitzi&I :

Alright, great thanks, I will take a look!

Should I be worried....she just drank a lot of water and when I picked her up a bunch of water fell out of her mouth....

Kinda freaked out, is she ok?

Mine have done that too on occasion. It's weird. Glad you're getting a handle on all of this. It's a shame the previous owner let that happen to her.​

 

[Mitzi&I]

I don't think she knew she had lice, infact I had no idea. When I bought her I inspected her and saw NOTHING. she seemed perfectly healthy. It wasn't until the night of that day they started to emerge..thousands. I think the ivermectin scared them out of the inner feathers or something..

 

[Mitzi&I]

And yes it is very wierd....I hope she doesn't do it again, or I will be worried about something else being wrong with her! I think she just had to much to drink at once..

*finally figured out how to change the avatar, isn't she beautiful? haha*

 

[Mattemma]

Glad to read things are going better. I thought chicken lice are not blood suckers though,and that they are not a huge issue unless there is a serious infestation which will cause discomfort. I read sevin and also in a pinch the flea pump sprays for cats. I saw coconut oil in the food section at walmart,but is the refind type not the virgin oils that are good for your health,but that shouls not matter since it is not for eating.I put sevin in the coop floor shavings and in a box with dirt and de when I saw lice on the prolapsed hen.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Mitzi&I :

Thanks for all the replies. IT WORKED! she is completely lice free! except she looks like a rat, because no matter how hard I try the oil wont leave her feather. So tomorrow I guess I will need to bath again...ugh! I am worried she is going to get a cold from all these baths. But on the other hand I don't want her to ingest oil or get a chill from the oily feathers. I think dawn soap is the only thing that will get that oil out.

The eggs. I don't know that I want to cut them out, wont those feathers bleed? I will take that comb that came with the lice shampoo though and try to take out as many as I can. I will go outside of the city this week and pick up some ACTUAL bird lice treatment (whether it be sevin, poultry dust, frontline, etc). But for now. NO LICE!

thanks everyone! (I went back to the stores today, they all told me that lice treatment and sevin and such have been removed from their stock due to over usage....) I will have to travel farther to get it I guess.

i just put a tiny squirt of ivermectin on her neck...not too much. It wasn't my own bottle though, it was the ladies I bought my bird from, I need to pick up some of my own! haha

what is frontline? Where can I get it?

I wonder where I can get coconut oil?

I DO NOT want to deal with the human shampoo for the second treatment. Although it worked it was EXPENSIVE! I had to use the entire bottle and the oil will NOT come out. Plus it can't be healthy.

The feathers will only bleed if they are a blood feather. A blood feather is a new, growing feather - kind of looks like a quil - the feather is in the "quil" and full of blood. Should a feather like that break or get cut, the bird will bleed until the feather shaft is pulled from the skin. Blood feathers are tender and the birds generally do not like them touched. A new growing feather will most often be dark looking because of the blood. As the feather matures, the blood leaves the shaft, the shaft gets dry and scratchy; turns a white-ish color and is flaked/rubbed/scratched off. When the shaft is ready to come off, the feathers become itchy and the birds often enjoy a nice feather massage to gently work the dry shaft off.


So you do not have to worry about clipping fluffy feathers or feathers that are not encased in a shaft.​

 

[Mitzi&I]

Alright good to know!

I washed all the oil off today....but she got wayyy to relaxed in the water..and kept dunking her head in! what if she drowns?! im very worried! how do I know if there's water in her lungs? When I first took her out she was breathing funny, and hunkering down low..she is breathing normal now..but I have heard of birds drowning hours after a bath. Anything I can do incase?!?!

Thanks,

Christina

 

[welasharon]

I have one who loves to dunk her head under the water when I soak her. I think your chicken is not going to drown itself.