Lice/Mite Treatment eating eggs??

[saskmomma4]

Hi, I found some little mites or lice on my chickens, I discovered after one hen died . I tried dusting the ones who looked infested with Diatamatious Earth and adding it to their dust bath. I gave them about a week and a half and kept seeing the bugs. So after doing some research decided to treat them with Ivermectin. Last night I put a few drops per bird. My plan is to treat again in 10 days and again 10 days after that. I am going to completely clean the coop tomorrow (wanted to give it a little time in case anyone pooped any internal parasite eggs out) and spray everything down with "Dr. Doom".

Anything I'm missing??

Also I don't plan on eating the eggs for at least 30 days after the last treatment, possibly longer.. Not sure if that's necessary to wait this long or not but I sure don't want to risk it.

Could I cook up the eggs and feed them back to the hens? Or feed them to my dog? Or are they complete garbage?

 

[HuffleClaw]

Diatomaceous Earth won’t help.

Keep going with the Ivermectin and/or Dr. Doom..

You can feed the eggs back to the hens yes.

 

[Folly's place]

No, don't feed the eggs back to the hens! That just continues to give them more Ivermectin, so more in their egg yolks longer. For the dogs, probably not either. It's not a good idea to promote resistance to parasiticides either by giving very low doses to anyone.
If you aren't allergic to it, maybe eat them yourself in eight or ten days?
Better jet, throw them out.
That's why we use permethrin here, no egg withdrawal.
Ivermectin is a terrific drug for this otherwise, and not approved for use in the USA in chickens because of it's uptake into yolks.
Mary

 

[MiaS]

No, don't feed the eggs back to the hens! That just continues to give them more Ivermectin, so more in their egg yolks longer. For the dogs, probably not either. It's not a good idea to promote resistance to parasiticides either by giving very low doses to anyone.
If you aren't allergic to it, maybe eat them yourself in eight or ten days?
Better jet, throw them out.
That's why we use permethrin here, no egg withdrawal.
Ivermectin is a terrific drug for this otherwise, and not approved for use in the USA in chickens because of it's uptake into yolks.
Mary

Sadly Permethrin is not available in Canada

 

[Folly's place]

I know, and it's too bad. DE doesn't work. Carbaryl and Ivermectin work, but aren't supposed to be used in the USA. What do you have that would work and be on your approved list?
Mary

 

[MiaS]

I know, and it's too bad. DE doesn't work. Carbaryl and Ivermectin work, but aren't supposed to be used in the USA. What do you have that would work and be on your approved list?
Mary

Seems to me (new to chickens) like nothing...I found some Sevin (contains carbaryl) online but I can sorta see why we've banned it, it's brutal to beneficial insects. Ivermectin is available but I have no idea what is actually 'approved'. We do have something called Doctor Doom as mentioned above.

 

[Folly's place]

DD, on the website, has two sprays mentioned, each containing pyrethrum, the naturally occurring form of permethrin, and also another insecticide (forgot the name already!) that we can't use on chickens here. Are these products actually labelled for chickens?
Mary

 

[MiaS]

DD, on the website, has two sprays mentioned, each containing pyrethrum, the naturally occurring form of permethrin, and also another insecticide (forgot the name already!) that we can't use on chickens here. Are these products actually labelled for chickens?
Mary

Funny, I was just on the website and don't see the product that I bought here which is called Lice Killer for Poultry Plus+, I haven't tried it (tomorrow's job since I've found mites on one of my girls ughh) but Facebook forums saying it works well. Can be applied to coops and directly to chickens.

 

[aart]

Saw recently a 14 day withdrawal for Ivermectin...gave citations.
Was it you that posted it @Eggcessive

 

[Eggcessive]

Ivermectin is not approved for poultry, but some use it off label for stubborn lice infestations in chickens. Not many studies have been done, but here is one for chickens and one for pigeons, plus some info on cattle and pigs in the chicken chick link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29378154
https://academic.oup.com/ps/article/91/11/2808/1548338