New chicken is gonna be dead from worms in a matter of hours! ARGH!

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The wormer will take care of that. If your really worried dont let the birds out in the yard for a few days. The worms would die outside of a host.
 
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Then it is mites, no doubt in my mind... yes, mites can make a chicken act like that. and yes you are near the point of losing it if you don't do something fast. Get the Ivermec pour on... it is for cattle and any decent feed store will have it. Again, there are dosages on BYC somewhere just google it. You don't have time to waste on things like DE or Seven... WHICH WORK, but you don't have the time to take the chance. You can do that for the rest of your birds.... a kitty litter pan with 50% sand and 50% DE or Seven and they will dust themselves.... but for this guy... you need more. Frontline works but there is some people who feel it is possibly unsafe for the chicken .... AND it's easy to overdose.


Yup mites. Good luck... and check everyone else. You can also do a dip... for that you would need to go to TSC and get poultry spray or a permethrin product (I use Prozap brand, but TSC doesn't carry the poultry version)... you follow directions and dip each chicken. Your coop will need to be sprayed and you are now a soldier in the war against mites. Welcome! It is a war without a end.

ETA... the pour on can be administered by mouth and take care of worms AND mites.
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I just went to the feed store and got Bimectin, an injectable ivermectin. They only had the pour-on in an obscenely large jug.
Is it possible to give this ivermectin orally? The instructions say that it must be injected subcutaneously, not into the muscle or intravenously.
 
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Then it is mites, no doubt in my mind... yes, mites can make a chicken act like that. and yes you are near the point of losing it if you don't do something fast. Get the Ivermec pour on... it is for cattle and any decent feed store will have it. Again, there are dosages on BYC somewhere just google it. You don't have time to waste on things like DE or Seven... WHICH WORK, but you don't have the time to take the chance. You can do that for the rest of your birds.... a kitty litter pan with 50% sand and 50% DE or Seven and they will dust themselves.... but for this guy... you need more. Frontline works but there is some people who feel it is possibly unsafe for the chicken .... AND it's easy to overdose.


Yup mites. Good luck... and check everyone else. You can also do a dip... for that you would need to go to TSC and get poultry spray or a permethrin product (I use Prozap brand, but TSC doesn't carry the poultry version)... you follow directions and dip each chicken. Your coop will need to be sprayed and you are now a soldier in the war against mites. Welcome! It is a war without a end.

ETA... the pour on can be administered by mouth and take care of worms AND mites.
wink.png


out of curiosity, will these mites infect homes? i'm so worried that they now be breeding in my home, after all, i did end up with all those mite bites, so they got under my clothes, which sat in my laundry basket, which sits on my carpet.
there seem to be conflicting stories on the internet. some say they can't live away from their bird hosts, others say that the mites live just fine on humans and in human homes.
 
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Then it is mites, no doubt in my mind... yes, mites can make a chicken act like that. and yes you are near the point of losing it if you don't do something fast. Get the Ivermec pour on... it is for cattle and any decent feed store will have it. Again, there are dosages on BYC somewhere just google it. You don't have time to waste on things like DE or Seven... WHICH WORK, but you don't have the time to take the chance. You can do that for the rest of your birds.... a kitty litter pan with 50% sand and 50% DE or Seven and they will dust themselves.... but for this guy... you need more. Frontline works but there is some people who feel it is possibly unsafe for the chicken .... AND it's easy to overdose.


Yup mites. Good luck... and check everyone else. You can also do a dip... for that you would need to go to TSC and get poultry spray or a permethrin product (I use Prozap brand, but TSC doesn't carry the poultry version)... you follow directions and dip each chicken. Your coop will need to be sprayed and you are now a soldier in the war against mites. Welcome! It is a war without a end.

ETA... the pour on can be administered by mouth and take care of worms AND mites.
wink.png


Ivermectin pour on CANNOT be given orally. It is a pour on, meaning it goes on the bare skin on the back of the neck on the chicken.
 
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Then it is mites, no doubt in my mind... yes, mites can make a chicken act like that. and yes you are near the point of losing it if you don't do something fast. Get the Ivermec pour on... it is for cattle and any decent feed store will have it. Again, there are dosages on BYC somewhere just google it. You don't have time to waste on things like DE or Seven... WHICH WORK, but you don't have the time to take the chance. You can do that for the rest of your birds.... a kitty litter pan with 50% sand and 50% DE or Seven and they will dust themselves.... but for this guy... you need more. Frontline works but there is some people who feel it is possibly unsafe for the chicken .... AND it's easy to overdose.


Yup mites. Good luck... and check everyone else. You can also do a dip... for that you would need to go to TSC and get poultry spray or a permethrin product (I use Prozap brand, but TSC doesn't carry the poultry version)... you follow directions and dip each chicken. Your coop will need to be sprayed and you are now a soldier in the war against mites. Welcome! It is a war without a end.

ETA... the pour on can be administered by mouth and take care of worms AND mites.
wink.png


Ivermectin pour on CANNOT be given orally. It is a pour on, meaning it goes on the bare skin on the back of the neck on the chicken.

Yes it can we use it orally for goats and chickens.
 
Ivermectin pour on only goes on skin. Ivermectin injectible can both be injected or given orally. I'd give it orally and dust with Sevin both.
 
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Then it is mites, no doubt in my mind... yes, mites can make a chicken act like that. and yes you are near the point of losing it if you don't do something fast. Get the Ivermec pour on... it is for cattle and any decent feed store will have it. Again, there are dosages on BYC somewhere just google it. You don't have time to waste on things like DE or Seven... WHICH WORK, but you don't have the time to take the chance. You can do that for the rest of your birds.... a kitty litter pan with 50% sand and 50% DE or Seven and they will dust themselves.... but for this guy... you need more. Frontline works but there is some people who feel it is possibly unsafe for the chicken .... AND it's easy to overdose.


Yup mites. Good luck... and check everyone else. You can also do a dip... for that you would need to go to TSC and get poultry spray or a permethrin product (I use Prozap brand, but TSC doesn't carry the poultry version)... you follow directions and dip each chicken. Your coop will need to be sprayed and you are now a soldier in the war against mites. Welcome! It is a war without a end.

ETA... the pour on can be administered by mouth and take care of worms AND mites.
wink.png


Ivermectin pour on CANNOT be given orally. It is a pour on, meaning it goes on the bare skin on the back of the neck on the chicken.

I was skeptical as well but it certainly can be administered orally

For those who have experience worming goats, it is widely known that there are not a great deal of choices in dewormers specifically labeled for goats. For those who don't know, various brands of wormers such as Ivermectin are given "off-label". It is also commonly known that despite the labeling on many of these dewormers such as Ivermectin, even though stated as a "pour-on", meaning, applied directly to the hair of the animal, the pour-on is administered orally. It is advised that you never pour-on a dewormer on a goat. Their skin is much thinner than that of cattle.

http://www.jollygerman.com/products/goats/ivermectin.shtml
 

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