lice!!!

[stryker]

Mine was not that bad but melted Coconut oil sprayed on those really good will take care of it.. I put the DE in a wash tub and then layed the chicken in to dust it. It was more like cover the chicken with DE. The DE got rid of the lice in about three days. The coconut oil got rid of the eggs the next day.

 

[Angie16hearts]

Mine was not that bad but melted Coconut oil sprayed on those really good will take care of it.. I put the DE in a wash tub and then layed the chicken in to dust it. It was more like cover the chicken with DE.  The DE got rid of the lice in about three days. The coconut oil got rid of the eggs the next day.

I have both of those items. I'll get to work. Thank you!

 

[stryker]

Good luck! You might have to reapply. I used a gallon bucket of hot water to keep the coconut oil spray bottle in which was able to keep it liquid enough to spray about 43 birds in freezing weather.

 

[Angie16hearts]

Good luck! You might have to reapply. I used a gallon bucket of hot water to keep the coconut oil spray bottle in which was able to keep it liquid enough to spray about 43 birds in freezing weather.

I did do ivermax at base of neck and tail end. I am also going to do what you suggested today. I only have 11 big girls to do. So not quite as bad. I have 3 bantams in a different coop I haven't checked. Should probably do that while I'm neck deep in getting the girls healthy again. It's really wet where I live and I have been hit back to back ! Fowl pox this summer , we are loaded with flies and Mosquitos. Last sat I had to follow each hen and found one with worms and now this. Plus a 3 of my RIR have sticky butt so I will be very busy. Makes me really think about eating chicken that I haven't raised with the amount of work that goes into them. I cNt imagine the big industry ! What they do to there massive flocks and all the chemicals they use!

 

[kristin07035]

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[maryellen21]

My one new hen has lice, i treated the coop with liquid permethrin stuff changed the sand put down sevin and DE and treated all the hens with the sevin, I'm doing my 3rd treatment on 12/29 and will use the vco asi have 2 jars here. I get mine on amazon. I will heat up the vco and spray their butts and wing areas too. Only one has the lice but I'm treating the entire coop and flock and pen area.

 

[justplainbatty]

Hi,
Years ago I had 16 chickens with lice. I cleaned and disinfected coop and put sevin in just as you have, However, I got lice shampoo from pet store and gave each chicken a bath,rinse and a light blow dry(it was summer) changing bath for every chicken. No more lice! It did take all day to bathe 16 but it was worth the effort and there was peace in the coop again. They had vent lice so I paid special attention to scrubbing there butts and pulling off clumps of knits but it only took one bath each to do the trick.
Hope your hens are happy again soon!

 

[maryellen21]

Ok so after reading all the links i am to throw away all the eggs for the past 20 days as i am treating my hens with sevin for one hen that had lice. And i have one more treatment 12/29 to do. So a month after my last treatment i can start saving the eggs?

 

[CGinJCMO]

Ok so after reading all the links i am to throw away all the eggs for the past 20 days as i am treating my hens with sevin for one hen that had lice. And i have one more treatment 12/29 to do. So a month after my last treatment i can start saving the eggs?

Sevin liquid, I used to treat the building (waiting until it's dry before letting hens back in); sevin powder, I used to treat the chickens (with DE, ashes and leftover sevin in their dust bath). I still ate the eggs. I might have not have if I had used a liquid treatment on the hens (I don't when I use Ivermectin). Most of the treatments are not labled for poultry use because it hasn't been tested - chickens are "cheap" and easily replacable in most people's minds and *not* worth the bother to experiment on. (although you would think the big egg laying facilities would fund research since it would be in their interest to keep their chickens healthy too)

CG

edited to add a forgotten *not*

 

[maryellen21]

I used sevin powder and DE on the hens, on the coop etc i used liquid permethrin and didnt let the hens in until it was all dry. I ate eggs over the past 20 days not even thinking i couldn't.

So should i still throw them out and wait until the middle of January to start eating them? The last sevin treatment is in a few days