Lice treatment options please

[KDbeads]

Well..... I was just cleaning May's face, she's been inside in the hospital crate for almost 2 weeks now with a head injury that's mostly healed, I have been doing this twice a day but today I saw 2 lice crawling around on her neck feathers! ICK!!!!!!
No signs of lice before now on anyone and we check weekly, paranoid I know but I don't like creepy crawlies. Anyway I need options for treatment. Most of the poultry dust available in this area are pretty much the same as Sevin dust and I'm allergic to that. What else can I use? Was thinking about the pour on ivermectin but the feed store out here has no clue what I'm talking about so it's got to be under another name. If you have a link to a pic of the product that would help!
Also I do have a tube of 1.87% ivermectin paste oral horse wormer.... can this be used? Do I give it orally? How much??

 

[KDbeads]

No one?

 

[Dar]

My local feed store had a product called DRI-KILL i dont know if its like sevin dust or not but it worked GREAT... NOTE: wear mask...I did not and ended up with pneumonia

http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Product.jsp?REG_NR=03317600017&DIST_NR=015331

 

[KDbeads]

I'm not sure on that one..... Feed store didn't have it last time I looked for poultry dust though....

 

[mdbokc]

I recall using the pour-on but do not recall reading where anyone used the paste on chickens. Might check the "Search" feature near the top of the page.

Checked the "Search" and found "I personally, used ivermectin paste, labeled for horses, and gave a tiny bit to each chicken orally." at https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3184607

Excellent thread at https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2793326 where the recommendation for the paste is a BB-sized piece directly into the chicken beak.

 

[KDbeads]

Hmm..... must not have seen those when I was digging through the search results last night, Thanks!

I did end up getting a bottle of the pour on ivermectin a few minutes ago and double checked the dust they had..... it was malithion which I can't use

I am using the paste for heartworm meds in the dogs already so it will still be used, plus the pour on I can use for mange treatment in the rescue.

 

[fordmommy]

I think that might be what my chickens have. I just treated them with a product called Garden and Poultry Dust. I got it at Fleet Farm. Don't know if you have one near you. I paid $5.99 for 2lb bottle. It calls for 1 lb per 100 chickens. I just treated them today so I am not sure how well it works. I hope that helps.

This is a link to the BRAND that I used. That way you can see the bottle I used.


http://www.google.com/products?sour...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBwQrQQwAw

 

[jensen]

I would work in a bit of malathion dust for the lice (follow directions) and for scaly leg mites I've found scalex to be very effective.

 

[pips&peeps]

I have found the ivermectin does not work on the feather louse. It usually only kills bugs that take a "blood" meal like mites.

I use a horse spray made by Farnam called Ultra Shield. Spray a little on the back of the neck, under both wings and the fluff of the butt and repeat in 2 weeks.

 

[KDbeads]

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Can't use malathion..... means a trip to the ER for me but thanks!!!