Mites on 1 wk old chicks

[MomMommyMamma]

Goodness ~ have called every feed store and even Lowes w/in an hour of us and they either don't carry or are out of the food grade DE.

 

[theFox]

Poultry dust will do the job by itself.

DE is only good as a preventive.

DE will not control an active infestation.

Once you notice the bugs it is way past the point for prevention.

 

[MomMommyMamma]

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Thanks!
I also called my uncle who is farmer from way back - doesn't mean he's right, maybe some of his ideas are not the best. He suggested using ivermectin in their water as well?? Also mentioned that he didn't see why garden quality DE would harm the chickens. Said he has never used DE with his chickens but does use it to deworm the goats and has never used "food grade".
My plan right now is to head to the feed store and get the poultry dust. Change out all of the bedding.
How do I go about cleaning out their boxes & the coop? My uncle suggested that I need to "hit it with insecticide". He meant a liquid spray of some sort but I'm guessing that DE is maybe better?
Thank you all so very much for your help with this!!

 

[theFox]

Quote:
Thanks!
I also called my uncle who is farmer from way back - doesn't mean he's right, maybe some of his ideas are not the best. He suggested using ivermectin in their water as well?? Also mentioned that he didn't see why garden quality DE would harm the chickens. Said he has never used DE with his chickens but does use it to deworm the goats and has never used "food grade".
My plan right now is to head to the feed store and get the poultry dust. Change out all of the bedding.
How do I go about cleaning out their boxes & the coop? My uncle suggested that I need to "hit it with insecticide". He meant a liquid spray of some sort but I'm guessing that DE is maybe better?
Thank you all so very much for your help with this!!

ivermectin is the cattle De Wormer I told you about.

If you choose to use that do not use any poultry dust as that would be massive overkill, also do not spill any of it on yourself as it will be absorbed through your skin and you'll actually De Worm yourself.

Use of ivermectin for this purpose on poultry is off label.

Poultry dust is insecticide and the active ingredients in it are also available in liquid form.

 

[MomMommyMamma]

Quote:
Thanks!
I also called my uncle who is farmer from way back - doesn't mean he's right, maybe some of his ideas are not the best. He suggested using ivermectin in their water as well?? Also mentioned that he didn't see why garden quality DE would harm the chickens. Said he has never used DE with his chickens but does use it to deworm the goats and has never used "food grade".
My plan right now is to head to the feed store and get the poultry dust. Change out all of the bedding.
How do I go about cleaning out their boxes & the coop? My uncle suggested that I need to "hit it with insecticide". He meant a liquid spray of some sort but I'm guessing that DE is maybe better?
Thank you all so very much for your help with this!!

ivermectin is the cattle De Wormer I told you about.

If you choose to use that do not use any poultry dust as that would be massive overkill, also do not spill any of it on yourself as it will be absorbed through your skin and you'll actually De Worm yourself.

Use of ivermectin for this purpose on poultry is off label.

Poultry dust is insecticide and the active ingredients in it are also available in liquid form.

Thanks again! Lol - if I have worms, I think I'd like to deworm myself!

 

[theFox]

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ivermectin is the cattle De Wormer I told you about.

If you choose to use that do not use any poultry dust as that would be massive overkill, also do not spill any of it on yourself as it will be absorbed through your skin and you'll actually De Worm yourself.

Use of ivermectin for this purpose on poultry is off label.

Poultry dust is insecticide and the active ingredients in it are also available in liquid form.

Thanks again! Lol - if I have worms, I think I'd like to deworm myself!

I don't really think you'd like to do that if you actually had a high worm load. In fact if one's chickens have a high worm load, you need to do the de worming in two steps as just hitting the poor birds with the ivermectin can cause major problems for the chickens.

 

[MomMommyMamma]

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Well you can't just leave it like that - how would one know that their chickens had a high worm load? I'm learning so much!

 

[MomMommyMamma]

Yea! I used an old panyhose foot filled w/ the dusting powder and dusted all fowl. Went very smoothly. Catching everyone was worse than the dusting! I do this again in 7 days right?

 

[theFox]

You take a stool sample to a vet and request a fecal float count.

Wasine is usually used for the first round, in short you try to keep the level of toxin produced by the dead and dying worms from overloading the chickens systems. Human de worming really should be done under a doctors care.

It can be fun catching the birds which is why I do it in the dark.

 

[theFox]

On the ten day thing I'll only say follow the instructions on the label.

I know of folks that do a dusting, then several at an odd number of days. I believe they are making some assumptions about how far along the infestation is by the time they catch it. Sort of like a certain lice shampoo requires.

Darn, now you've got me feeling all itchy.