mites

[ChickNanny13]

Remember you need to treat again in 7 - 10 days, hatching eggs or the cycle will start again.

 

[orpiechic]

Remember you need to treat again in 7 - 10 days, hatching eggs or the cycle will start again.

Do you mean with the ivermectin? I've already treated them twice. Should I treat a third time?

 

[Kiki]

Do you mean with the ivermectin? I've already treated them twice. Should I treat a third time?

No. With permethrin.

 

[orpiechic]

No. With permethrin.

I've been doing that every couple of days. Is that too much?

 

[Kiki]

I've been doing that every couple of days. Is that too much?

With permethrin, no that is not too much.

Are you still seeing mites?

 

[Kiki]

Can you post a picture of the premixed bird spray you are using?

 

[orpiechic]

With permethrin, no that is not too much.

Are you still seeing mites?

If I stop spraying every 2 days, then yes, I see them again.

 

[BDutch]

I don't get this. As far as I know, bird mites are not active in winter with temperatures around, or below, freezing. Do you have another kind of lice?

Winter and early spring is a great time to sanitize the coop when it is not freezing. My strategie was cleaning and DE. Worked great with a minor infestation. If you use DE as a paint it stays in cracks in the wood. And helps against new infestations.

Be careful to use products for pets. Pets don’t deliver you products for consumption like eggs or meat. A lot of lice products for pets are not meant for human consumption and can be poisonous.

 

[orpiechic]

I don't get this. As far as I know, bird mites are not active in winter with temperatures around, or below, freezing. Do you have another kind of lice?

Winter and early spring is a great time to sanitize the coop when it is not freezing. My strategie was cleaning and DE. Worked great with a minor infestation. If you use DE as a paint it stays in cracks in the wood. And helps against new infestations.

Be careful to use products for pets. Pets don’t deliver you products for consumption like eggs or meat. A lot of lice products for pets are not meant for human consumption and can be poisonous.

Yes, it's winter here but the temperatures have been pretty mild. They're definitely mites. Two things to keep in mind is I'm treating a chicken in the house that's very weak & I also have chickens outside in a coop. The ones outside are doing better than the one in the house. The mites on them have been getting less & less so I would say the treatment is working. I just cleaned their coop yesterday & sprayed the whole thing down with pyrethrin spray. I also switched from using pine shavings to straw to see if that helps any. The one inside is my biggest concern. She's very weak. I've bathed her, treated her with ivermectin twice, clean her cage every week & wipe it down with pyrethrin spray after it's thoroughly scrubbed, & spray her, the bedding & all around her cage with the spray. I'm not really worried about the spray & eggs right now, she isn't laying anyway. The ones outside are molting & only 1 of them is laying which I'm throwing out because I have to wait 30 days after treating with ivermectin to eat the eggs again. I've used the DE in the bedding & on the chickens & it didn't do anything. Then, someone told me that DE doesn't work for mites anyway so does it work or not. I'm going to switch the house chickens bedding from pine shavings to small animal paper bedding to see if that helps any. I keep having a nagging feeling that the mites are in the shavings. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I figured if the pet bird mite & lice spray won't hurt a budgie, then it shouldn't hurt a chicken. I also have the pet bird mite & lice protectors hanging on her cage. Btw, the cage she's in is an old wire, metal dog crate. Another thing to keep in mind, I have dogs that can be sensitive to the ivermectin so I have to watch that. I also have cats & pyrethrin spray is toxic to them so I have to watch that as well. What else can I do? What am I doing wrong?

 

[BDutch]

Some ideas to help:

Only use pine shavings or straw in the nest box. Maybe 1 nestbox is enough now?.

Throw all the bedding In a bin. And if you have infected roosts , make new ones and throw the old ones also in a bin. Not anywhere on a compost heap or such.

Do you have a steamer? This id great to kill living lice (only lice eggs will survive).

After cleaning: Put sand on the ground flour mixed with a fee tablespoons of DE. Mites love hiding places to lay there eggs in straw, pine and wood cracks, but not in sand. Especially not in sand with DE.

Paint the roosts and all the wood around the roosts with a selfmade ‘paint’ (mix DE with water until you get a yoghurt thick ‘paint’. ).
Best make roosts with special connections upon an oil cup. Spray extra permethrin if needed, But don't overdo it if you have used this already 2 times.

Make it impossible for the mites that escaped the permethrin, to live longer then a week and lay eggs again.

Clean the nestbox every week and put a thin layer of sand with DE underneath the savings/straw.

Give you're chickens rich food e.g. with xtra mealworms, apple vinniger in the water and dome fresh herbs.

Hope it wil be all right soon. Especially for the weakened chicken. ::