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[KrisRose]

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I totally agree. I did dust them although I only found a few mites on one. I will recheck tomorrow (both a vent check and white paper check) before deciding if they go or not. I was not impressed with results from dusting in the past. Ivomectin has worked better but it's only been two weeks since I dosed everyone. I'm not so much concerned with spreading to the other animals as we are the only ones taking chickens but much more concerned over having someone bitten by a mite or being exposed to the chemicals from dusting. I called the poison center and was told that with what I used they are fine to be handled in 24 hours without giving them a bath. Does that sound right to you?

Here is my excitement for the day. I'm up to 9 eggs and one of my button quails has started laying!
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KrisRose - these are Northern Fowl mites. I HATE the little things and have done everything imaginable to get rid of them. I think they are in the coop and on certain birds. They are hard to find except that they find me and bite me to pieces. And yes a dumb Starling brought them to my coop. They made a nest in the eaves that I didn't find until there were babies. I was too wimpy to kill them and have paid for it ever since. If it was warm out I would just bathe everyone.

They are hard to get rid of. I think I might have mites in my small coop but they never bite me and they dont seem to bother my chickens.
They are in a Lowes playhouse coop and the wood is ruff sawn with alot of hiddy holes. I should of painted it before I used it. My bad. I did kill off some of the buggers with ant killer. Created a toxic cloud, could never use it in coop when chickens are in it.
Hope you can get rid of the buggers!

 

[Olive Hill]

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I believe Taprock was asking for ideas to get rid of them. Do you have any suggestions?
They are probably lice she is seeing rather then mites since lice live on chickens were mites live in coop. I have a constant war with the little demons since the wild birds supply my chickens with them. In the summer I have started drowning the lice by putting chickens in bucket of warm water. Just a drop of dog shampoo which breaks the water tension and the devils fall to bottem of bucket.
I know, sounds like chicken soup

!!

I may have misunderstood but I thought she was asking how to bathe and dust them so that she could still take them to 4H. I was simply saying that any method of doing so wouldn't make the birds "safe" to take, IMO. I don't think I was off topic at all. Sometimes the answer someone needs to hear is not the direct answer to the very question they asked. *shrug*


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LOL! I do like cooking, but to heck with ironing! I don't do it unless I have to. Which usually only when traveling and then only as much as I have to. I've been known to turn the shower on hot in the hotel bathroom and hang my clothes in there to steam just so I don't have to iron. Such a waste of water.

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I guess it would depend on what you're using, but yeah, probably. I think most things dissipate pretty quickly when open to the elements. Have you tried a permethrin spray/fog in your coop? It's a nasty chemical but it does work and sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get rid of the problem. Where does the dosing recommendation come from on the Ivomec for the mites? I'm just wondering if it's actually based on ERP or not. Many wormers are not really labeled in the most effective manner. A lot of worming guidelines don't get updated with new science.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

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Idk about ivermectin, but normally a week-10 days is standard repeat, for any debugging. If you are going to put them back outside, i WOULD NOT WASH. their oil is like a cat's, and they need it. Even professional showers give their birds a couple weeks to re-oil before showing after bathing. You probably know this already, but if you've seen one... you gotta do the whole crew and spray the coop with something. My birds are outside all the time, and since i got the bugs with this stuff i haven't seen any more.... knock on wood.

I recommended this stuff cause when i looked up ivermectin i got wishy washy answers for effectiveness against lice. It works by getting in the blood, and since lice don't always need blood, depending on the kind.... I say do the nasty stuff and follow with the diotomaceous earth when their gone for sure. it works on northern fowl mite too.

 

[RBahmer]

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Seriously? What's more fun than a full day of cooking and ironing?

I can think of a lot of things that are more fun. I would rather clean sheep stalls in the barn than to cook or iron. Yuck.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

We finally got snow!

The girls ran to the door....

And said no way....
so i put on my gloves and got some greens from under the snow....

And everyone was happy.

The kids got to bask in the sun and look out at the snow from their comfy home...

And momma got to put up her feet and enjoy some well deserved tea! the end

 

[chicken grandma]

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Olive,
I think Taprock was just taking them to a retirement setting to be petted. I did not think that they were going to be around other chickens. That is how I understood it.
We should all be very careful when we put chickens together because of parasites including Coccidia which may be in the stools long after the birds recover, it may be in our soil, it may be on our boots.. We should be careful in traipsing onto each other's farms with our boots on from our own farm. Also should be careful when getting our chickens close enough to each other to share other diseases or parasites. But taking chickens to be petted by people does not seem to be risky to anyone as far as I can tell.

If it were me, I would use Adam's tick and flea spray from the pet store. It makes them smell nice and it kills the mites quickly and effectively. Bathing a chicken in this weather sounds risky. God bless!

 

[RaZ]

I happen to like ironing.




















It's my putting that needs work.

 

[KrisRose]

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I believe Taprock was asking for ideas to get rid of them. Do you have any suggestions?
They are probably lice she is seeing rather then mites since lice live on chickens were mites live in coop. I have a constant war with the little demons since the wild birds supply my chickens with them. In the summer I have started drowning the lice by putting chickens in bucket of warm water. Just a drop of dog shampoo which breaks the water tension and the devils fall to bottem of bucket.
I know, sounds like chicken soup

!!

I may have misunderstood but I thought she was asking how to bathe and dust them so that she could still take them to 4H. I was simply saying that any method of doing so wouldn't make the birds "safe" to take, IMO. I don't think I was off topic at all. Sometimes the answer someone needs to hear is not the direct answer to the very question they asked. *shrug*


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LOL! I do like cooking, but to heck with ironing! I don't do it unless I have to. Which usually only when traveling and then only as much as I have to. I've been known to turn the shower on hot in the hotel bathroom and hang my clothes in there to steam just so I don't have to iron. Such a waste of water.

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I guess it would depend on what you're using, but yeah, probably. I think most things dissipate pretty quickly when open to the elements. Have you tried a permethrin spray/fog in your coop? It's a nasty chemical but it does work and sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get rid of the problem. Where does the dosing recommendation come from on the Ivomec for the mites? I'm just wondering if it's actually based on ERP or not. Many wormers are not really labeled in the most effective manner. A lot of worming guidelines don't get updated with new science.

Well I must have misunderstood cause I though she asked for advice on how to get rid of them. My bad.

 

[KrisRose]

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Chicken groper I can understand.
Likes to iron? RBahmer has a sister for you

, sounds like a soul mate!!

 

[RaZ]

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