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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.
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
