Lice preventitive?

[Trevorusn]

These are the products I keep on hand and only use if necessary. They both can be found at TSC. I use the dust on my tomatoes and peppers too to keep tomato worms away (safe to use up until day of harvest). The liquid can be diluted according to how you need to use it. I used it to effectively keep carpenter bees from drilling holes in the coops. Both are very good at preventing anything with an exoskeleton from doing harm, so use carefully and follow label directions to avoid killing insects you don't want to.

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For the dust, you use it on both birds and coop?

 

[CluckerFamily]

Well, the SF roo in the coop they formerly resided in has lice. I treated the 5 with ivermectin and Poultry Protector spray, several little sprays on the back, stomach, vent, and under each wing for all of them. The coop has sand for the main area and pine shavings and PDZ for the egg boxes. Do I need to dump the sand or, being inorganic, is it ok to leave? What else should I do? The two fellas just had their crates deep cleaned last Sunday, can the lice spread from one chicken to me to another chicken? Or do the chickens have to be physically touching for bird to bird infestation?

Lice can spread from one chicken to another by using you as it's transporter. Lice can only live for a couple days without a poultry host.

 

[Trevorusn]

Lice can spread from one chicken to another by using you as it's transporter. Lice can only live for a couple days without a poultry host.

So of my 28 other birds, 20 are young, 13 and 11 weeks, and the other 8 are not showing any signs of lice. All are shedding feathers, but not at the rate of the known infected coop. Do all 28 need treatment even though their coops are quite seperate from the hotspot? Can they go, say, from feeder to feeder in my house at night?

 

[CluckerFamily]

So of my 28 other birds, 20 are young, 13 and 11 weeks, and the other 8 are not showing any signs of lice. All are shedding feathers, but not at the rate of the known infected coop. Do all 28 need treatment even though their coops are quite seperate from the hotspot? Can they go, say, from feeder to feeder in my house at night?

I would inspect all the birds. Starting with the birds that you don't think are infected so that you don't transfer lice to them. Look by the vent, under the wings and especially their beard (these are favorite spots for lice)

 

[Trevorusn]

I would inspect all the birds. Starting with the birds that you don't think are infected so that you don't transfer lice to them. Look by the vent, under the wings and especially their beard (these are favorite spots for lice)

I'll do that tomorrow, but the 5 that are or potentially are have already recieved a dose of ivermectin and Poultry Protector, and going to get permethrin dust tomorrow.

 

[Trevorusn]

I would inspect all the birds. Starting with the birds that you don't think are infected so that you don't transfer lice to them. Look by the vent, under the wings and especially their beard (these are favorite spots for lice)

Funny, we didn't spot any under the wings, by any vents, or beards. Only on the back and base of the neck really. And possible egg clumps on belly feathers.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Funny, we didn't spot any under the wings, by any vents, or beards. Only on the back and base of the neck really. And possible egg clumps on belly feathers.

That could be a sign that you caught this early!

 

[Trevorusn]

That could be a sign that you caught this early!

I hope so, this has been a ridiculous year for poultry health! All my coops have sand in the main areas and PDZ/pine shavings for eggboxes, minus one that has just sand. What are the chances of lice surviving in sand?

 

[CluckerFamily]

I hope so, this has been a ridiculous year for poultry health! All my coops have sand in the main areas and PDZ/pine shavings for eggboxes, minus one that has just sand. What are the chances of lice surviving in sand?

That I don't know. I don't use sand as my floor in my run. Hopefully, someone else can help with that.

 

[Trevorusn]

That I don't know. I don't use sand as my floor in my run. Hopefully, someone else can help with that.

Hoping so too, but thanks for adding your input, every bit helps!