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Ya know I just mix it in the litter kind of layer it, I rake(pull) back some of the litter sprinkle hand fulls of wood stove ash, then DE push the litter forward over it , make it all level and nice and sprinkle more on the top.Viva... I dusted a couple of hens recently with DE...a couple more with Sevin...figured when the weather warms up I could do the rest of the flock ...clean the hen house and dust the floor and roosts.
This morning when I went out to do chores I couldnt help but notice a couple of hens had lost a tremendous amount of feathers overnight.
I put drops of ivomec on the hens... dusted their rears and dusted the roosts.
If I dont kill the lice I could certainly kill the chickens.
When you dust the DE in the hen house do you only do it when the chicken house is cleaned out? Or do your often sprinkle it over the existing litter? With the frigid temps here I didnt want to clean out the hen house today, but I also did not want to do nothing