Lice/Mite Treatment eating eggs??

[saskmomma4]

Thanks for the input everyone!! I am in Canada and where I live it's tough to find any types of medications or treatments for chickens unless I feel like dishing out $300+ for a vet, who doesnt even typically treat poultry, to come inspect my flock then pay more for meds. I had a jug of cattle ivermectin anyways so decided to do that. The "Dr. Doom" stuff says it's for poultry but while reading instructions it sounds more like it's for killing the mites in the coop, not so much for on the birds themselves says just spray over them, since I had one hen die and another who isnt looking so good I wanted to use something I know will work.

 

[MiaS]

Thanks for the input everyone!! I am in Canada and where I live it's tough to find any types of medications or treatments for chickens unless I feel like dishing out $300+ for a vet, who doesnt even typically treat poultry, to come inspect my flock then pay more for meds. I had a jug of cattle ivermectin anyways so decided to do that. The "Dr. Doom" stuff says it's for poultry but while reading instructions it sounds more like it's for killing the mites in the coop, not so much for on the birds themselves says just spray over them, since I had one hen die and another who isnt looking so good I wanted to use something I know will work.

It seems so ridiculous to me that we seemingly have so few options here! I feel your pain

 

[saskmomma4]

It seems so ridiculous to me that we seemingly have so few options here! I feel your pain

I know, I agree. I feel like we end up using more unsafe methods this way, it's all mixed information on the internet I'm going by here, if I could just go purchase what I need without a prescription I'd feel so much better, just can't justify that vet bill.

 

[MiaS]

I know, I agree. I feel like we end up using more unsafe methods this way, it's all mixed information on the internet I'm going by here, if I could just go purchase what I need without a prescription I'd feel so much better, just can't justify that vet bill.

Exactly!!

 

[casportpony]

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 don't think a few drops is enough. If you have the pour on the dose is 0.05 ml per pound of body weight, which is about 1/4 ml per 5-pound bird.

 

[Folly's place]

What strength?
Here, when I used the 1% solution, I figured 1 ml. per 70 pounds body weight, so much less per pound!
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

I need to look it up in my bird med. book. Later.
Mary

 

[casportpony]

What strength?
Here, when I used the 1% solution, I figured 1 ml. per 70 pounds body weight, so much less per pound!
Mary

The pour-on is only 5 mg/ml, not 10 mg/ml like the stuff you have. The pour-on cattle dose is 0.5 mg/kg.

 

[casportpony]

I need to look it up in my bird med. book. Later.
Mary

Let me know what it says. None of my bird formularies list a dose for the pour on, they all list doses for the injectable and oral stuff, and those doses range between 0.2 mg/kg and 1 mg/kg.

 

[Folly's place]

@casportpony , my latest information (a few years old now) says 0.2 mg/ kg for most applications on birds, either PO, SQ, or IM. So depending on the strength of the product, it's about 0.1 mg/ pound body weight of the actual drug.
Mary